Rebekka Sidsel Klausen
Alma materHarvard University
Boston College
Scientific career
InstitutionsColumbia University
Johns Hopkins University
ThesisBenzoic acid and thiourea co-catalysis (2010)
Websitepages.jh.edu/chem/klausen/

Rebekka Klausen is an American chemist who is the Second Decade Society Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Her research considers carbon and silicon-based nanomaterials for optoelectronic devices. She was a finalist for the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

Early life and education

Klausen is from Brookline, Massachusetts. She was an undergraduate student in biochemistry at Boston College. She moved to Harvard University as a graduate student, where she worked under the supervision of Eric Jacobsen and studied asymmetric Pictet–Spengler reactions.[1][2][3] She moved to New York for postdoctoral research, joining the lab of Colin Nuckolls at Columbia University.[1] There, she studied the conductive properties of molecules containing a 1-D chain of silicon atoms,[4] as well as other fluorene-derivatives that can act as molecular wires.[5]

Research and career

Klausen began her independent career at Johns Hopkins University in 2013. Her research group studies organosilicon compounds, including poly(cyclosilane)s.[6][7] Klausen initially looked to create a bottom-up fabrication process for the realization of silicon-based materials, and to develop cyclo-silane building blocks for their polymerization.[8][9][10][11] Borrowing from the principles of carbon-based synthesis, Klausen has achieved precise control of the structure of silicon-based polymers.[8] She was named as the Second Decade Society Associate Professor in 2019. Klausen is part of the National Science Foundation Polymer Optimization Centre.[12][13]

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 "Rebekka Klausen". Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  2. ↑ Klausen, Rebekka S.; Jacobsen, Eric N. (2009-02-19). "Weak Brønsted Acid−Thiourea Co-catalysis: Enantioselective, Catalytic Protio-Pictet−Spengler Reactions". Organic Letters. 11 (4): 887–890. doi:10.1021/ol802887h. ISSN 1523-7060. PMC 2664157. PMID 19178157.
  3. ↑ Klausen, Rebekka S.; Kennedy, C. Rose; Hyde, Alan M.; Jacobsen, Eric N. (2017-09-06). "Chiral Thioureas Promote Enantioselective Pictet–Spengler Cyclization by Stabilizing Every Intermediate and Transition State in the Carboxylic Acid-Catalyzed Reaction". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139 (35): 12299–12309. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b06811. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 5674793. PMID 28787140.
  4. ↑ Klausen, Rebekka S.; Widawsky, Jonathan R.; Steigerwald, Michael L.; Venkataraman, Latha; Nuckolls, Colin (2012-03-14). "Conductive Molecular Silicon". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134 (10): 4541–4544. doi:10.1021/ja211677q. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 22352896.
  5. ↑ Klausen, R. S.; Widawsky, J. R.; Su, T. A.; Li, H.; Chen, Q.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Venkataraman, L.; Nuckolls, C. (2014-03-04). "Evaluating atomic components in fluorene wires". Chemical Science. 5 (4): 1561–1564. doi:10.1039/C4SC00064A. ISSN 2041-6539.
  6. ↑ Press, Eric M.; Marro, Eric A.; Surampudi, Sravan K.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Tang, Joel A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2017-01-09). "Synthesis of a Fragment of Crystalline Silicon: Poly(Cyclosilane)". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56 (2): 568–572. doi:10.1002/anie.201610208. OSTI 1533091. PMID 27897420.
  7. ↑ Fang, Fan; Jiang, Qifeng; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2022-05-04). "Poly(cyclosilane) Connectivity Tunes Optical Absorbance". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144 (17): 7834–7843. doi:10.1021/jacs.2c01820. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 35467855. S2CID 248389390.
  8. 1 2 3 "Early Career: Mesoscale Fragments of Crystalline Silicon by Chemical Synthesis".
  9. ↑ "Chemists build a zoo of new polymer building blocks". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  10. ↑ Marro, Eric A.; Folster, Carlton P.; Press, Eric M.; Im, Hoyeon; Ferguson, John T.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2019-11-06). "Stereocontrolled Syntheses of Functionalized cis – and trans -Siladecalins". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141 (44): 17926–17936. doi:10.1021/jacs.9b09902. ISSN 0002-7863. OSTI 1570378. PMID 31600060. S2CID 204244421.
  11. ↑ Marro, Eric A.; Press, Eric M.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2018-05-09). "Directional Building Blocks Determine Linear and Cyclic Silicon Architectures". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140 (18): 5976–5986. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b02541. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 29635912.
  12. ↑ "NSF Creates Polymer Chemistry Optimization Center at Duke for Future Materials". today.duke.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  13. ↑ Wallach, Rachel (2021-09-22). "Johns Hopkins chemist explores longer-lasting, sustainable materials with NSF-funded team". The Hub. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  14. ↑ "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships" (PDF).
  15. ↑ "AAAS' Marion Milligan Mason Awards Go to Five Female Scientists | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  16. ↑ "Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards: 2017 Awardees". VPR at JHU. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  17. ↑ "Rebekka Klausen Receives NSF CAREER Award". Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  18. ↑ "2021 ACS National Award winners—Part III – C&EN". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  19. ↑ "Blavatnik Family Foundation, New York Academy of Sciences Name 31 Finalists for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists". blavatnikawards.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  20. ↑ "Rebekka Klausen is finalist for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists". Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
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