Emily Pentzer, Ph.D.

Pentzer CV 12/2024

Office: CHEM 2532

575 Ross St. College Station, TX 77840 USA

Phone: 979-458-6688

Emily Pentzer is a Professor of Chemistry and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M
University, where she also serves as the Associate Dean for Research for the College
of Arts & Sciences. She joined Texas A&M in 2019 after starting her independent career
at Case Western Reserve University as the Frank Hovorka Assistant Professor of
Chemistry. The Pentzer Lab’s research centers on developing new polymeric materials
and assemblies as a route to understand structure-property-application relationships
and access functions not possible with current state-of-the-art systems. Her ongoing
work is inspired to address challenges in thermal energy management, electrochemical
energy storage, and carbon capture. In the past decade, she has helped secure >$37M
in research funding, including >$7M to her lab, from the National Science Foundation,
Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and various foundations and industry
sponsors.

A native of Bedford, Indiana, Prof. Pentzer attended Butler University where she
received a BS in Chemistry with highest honors (summa cum laude) and did research in
the biology and chemistry departments. She then earned her PhD in Chemistry from
Northwestern University, where her thesis work focused on preparing and polymerizing
unsaturated lactones and lactams. As a postdoctoral scholar in the Polymer Science
and Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, her research focused on the synthesis
and assembly of conjugated polymers and quantum dots for solar energy harvesting
and included work at Brookhaven National Lab.

Prof. Pentzer has received several recognitions including the NSF CAREER award
(2016), ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award (2017), CWRU Faculty Diversity
Excellence Award (2019), ACS WCC Rising Star Award (2021), Journal of Polymer
Science Innovation Award (2023), and was named a finalist for the Blavatnik Award in
physical sciences and engineering (2022). She served as an Associate Editor for
Polymer Chemistry from 2015-2023 and currently serves as the inaugural Editor in
Chief of RSC Applied Polymers (2023-present). She is a member of the New Voices
program of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2024-2026)
and holds courtesy appointments in the departments of Materials Science and
Engineering and Chemical Engineering.