Allegra L. Liberman-Martin
Grant Program Officer, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
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Allegra grew up in Phoenix, AZ and received a B.A. in Chemistry in 2010 from Scripps College. As an undergraduate, Allegra performed research with Profs. Nancy S. B. Williams and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts at Scripps College and Prof. Alan S. Goldman at Rutgers University. In 2015, Allegra earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley for work conducted with Profs. T. Don Tilley and Robert G. Bergman developing methods to enhance organometallic reaction rates by addition of Lewis acids. From 2016 to 2018, Allegra was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology with Prof. Robert H. Grubbs, studying polymer photonic crystals. Allegra was an Assistant Professor at Chapman University from 2018 to 2024. In 2024, Allegra joined the American Chemical Society as a grant program officer for the Petroleum Research Fund. |
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Selected Honors and Awards
- Cottrell Scholar Award (2023)
- Valerie Scudder Award (2023)
Recognition of outstanding achievement in teaching, scholarly/creative activity, and service to Chapman University
- American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research (with research student Ben Janda, 2022)
- Resnick Sustainability Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016–2018)
- Outstanding Poster Award, Division of Polymer Chemistry 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2017)
- Benjamin Boussert Memorial Award (2016)
UC Berkeley, Department of Chemistry award for exemplifying commitment to social or environmental change - Barbara McClintock Award for Best Senior Thesis in the Sciences at Scripps College (2010)