Abstract
It is always a great honor to be able to celebrate with colleagues the anniversary of a prestigious magazine. As I write this invited article for the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of publication of the IUPAC Journal, Pure and Applied Chemistry, I ponder upon my upbringing as a Puerto Rican academic, scientist, and chemist. The roads through school, academia, and life are often turbulent and not straightforward. Herein, I share a short recollection of my story as a young chemist and the aspirations I look forward to.
About the author
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Dr. Luis R. De Jesús obtained his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey where he graduated with honors. From there, he joined Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee’s research laboratory to pursue his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University where he focused on mapping electronic structure inhomogeneities and modeling spectroscopic signatures of electrode materials. During his graduate studies, Luis obtained a number of accolades, including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the American Physical Society Robert S. Hyer Graduate Award. Additionally, he was awarded the IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists given at the 47th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress and the 2019 ACS-Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Symposium Award presented at the 2019 Fall ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA. He is currently a Provost Postdoctoral Research Fellow working under the supervision of Prof. Thomas E. Mallouk at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research interests involve the synthesis, functionalization, and characterization of 2D layered transition-metal carbide (MXene) materials.
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