Members of the Schmidt-Rohr Group
Prof. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Professor, Chemistry, Brandeis UniversityBiography:
Received his Diploma in Physics in 1989, and a Ph.D. "summa cum laude" in 1991, from the University of Mainz, Germany, working with H. W. Spiess at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research. In 1992, he was a staff scientist at the Max-Planck Institute and wrote a book on "Multidimensional Solid-State NMR and Polymers" (with H. W. Spiess). He then spent two years in the group of Alex Pines at UC Berkeley, as a postdoctoral fellow of the BASF AG and the German National Scholarship Foundation. In 1995, he joined the Department of Polymer Science & Engineering of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where in 1997 he was promoted to Associate Professor. He was a professor at Iowa State University from 2000-2014. He joined the faculty at Brandeis University in 2014. In 1996, he received the Rudolf-Kaiser Prize from the German Physical Society, and a Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. In 2000, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, in 2001, the John H. Dillon Medal of the Polymer Division of the American Physical Society.
Joshua M. Litterio
Graduate Student, Chemistry, Brandeis UniversityBiography:
Joshua Litterio is from Brockton Massachusetts and currently resides in Walpole, Massachusetts. Joshua graduated from Stonehill College (‘21) with a B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Photonics. At Stonehill, they worked with Professor Louis J. Liotta, Ph.D. on the optimization and synthesis of tetrahydroxylated indolizidines, from an iminosugar methodology; and was a recipient of the ACS Organic Chemistry Division award and the William C. LaPlante Scholarship in recognition of their contributions. Joshua has a passion for organic pedagogy and synthesis and hopes to use these skills in addition to NMR methodology to better understand chemical systems and processes not well defined or understood. In their spare time, they volunteer as a mentor for the Alray Scholars Program and formerly served as principal bassoonist and secretary for the Parkway Concert Orchestra of Norwood, Massachusetts. Joshua is an avid runner who has completed multiple half-marathons and is a dog parent to their 8-year-old English bulldog.