Brief CV

a.  Professional Preparation

b(i)  Appointments

Johns Hopkins University	Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,	2020-
Johns Hopkins University	Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	2020-
Johns Hopkins University	Gompf Family Professor of Chemistry	2016-
Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE)	Director	2012-
Georgia Institute of Technology	Adjunct Professor of Chemistry	2016-2018
Georgia Institute of Technology	Professor of Chemistry	2009-2016
Center for Computational Molecular Science & Technology	Co-Director	2000-2016
Georgia Institute of Technology	Associate Professor of Chemistry	2002-2009
Georgia Institute of Technology	Assistant Professor of Chemistry	1996-2002

b(ii).  Selected Honors and Awards

• IMPACT Award, Research Corporation (2020) – Announced here, and in in the April 17, 2020 issue of Science
• Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences, SERMACS, American Chemical Society (2018)
• Herty Medal, Georgia Local Section, American Chemical Society (2017)
• Transformational Research and Excellence in Education (TREE) Award, Research Corporation (2016) — announced here
• Visiting Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa (2015-2016)
• ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2014) – annouced here
• Outstanding Service Award, Georgia Local Section, ACS (2012)
• Fellow, American Physical Society (APS, 2011)
• Fellow, American Chemical Society (ACS, 2010)
• Humboldt Research Fellow, (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2006-2007)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2004)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000-2002)
• Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation, 1999-2004)
• NSF CAREER (1997-2001)

c(i) Five Products (Out of over 155 publications)

Clyde A. Daly, Jr., and Rirgoberto Hernandez, “Learning from the machine: Uncovering sustainable nanoparticle design rules,” Journal of Physical. Chemistry C 2020, 124, 24,13409-13420 (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c01195

Emily J. Tollefson, Caley R. Allen, Gene Chong, Xi Zhang, Nikita D. Rozanov, Anthony Bautista, Jennifer J. Cerda, Joel A. Pedersen, Catherine J. Murphy, Erin E. Carlson, and Rigoberto Hernandez,  Preferential Binding of Cytochrome c to an Anionic Ligand-Coated Gold Nanoparticle: A Complementary Computational and Experimental Approach, ACS Nano 2019, 13 (6), 6856-6866. DOI:10.1021/acsnano.9b01622

Meng Wu, Ariane M. Vartanian, Gene Chong, Arun Kumar Pandiakumar, Robert J. Hamers, Rigoberto Hernandez, and Catherine J. Murphy,  Solution NMR analysis of ligand environment in quaternary ammonium-terminated self-assembled monolayers on gold nanoparticles: The effect of surface curvature and ligand structure. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141 (10), 4316-4327. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11445

Gene Chong, Elizabeth D. Laudadio, Meng Wu, Catherine J. Murphy, Robert J. Hamers, and Rigoberto Hernandez,  Density, structure, and stability of Citrate3− and H2citrate− on Bare and Coated Gold Nanoparticles, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122 (49),  28393–28404. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09666

Eric S. Melby, Caley Allen, Isabel U. Foreman-Ortiz, Emily R. Caudill, Thomas R. Kuech, Ariane M. Vartanian, Xi Zhang, Catherine J. Murphy, Rigoberto Hernandez, and Joel A. Pedersen,  Peripheral Membrane Proteins Facilitate Nanoparticle Binding at Lipid Bilayer Interfaces, Langmuir 2018, 34 (36),  10793-10805. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02060

c(ii).  Five Other Products      

Qiang Cui, Rigoberto Hernandez, Sara E. Mason, Thomas Frauenheim, Joel A. Pedersen, and Franz Geiger,  Mini-review. Sustainable nanotechnology: Opportunities and challenges for theoretical / computational studies, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2016, 120 (34), 7297-7306. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b03976

Catherine J. Murphy, Ariane M. Vartanian, Franz M. Geiger, Robert J. Hamers, Joel Pedersen, Qiang Cui, Christy L. Haynes, Erin E. Carlson, Rigoberto Hernandez, Rebecca D. Klaper, Galya Orr, Ze’ev Rosenzweig,  Biological Responses to Engineered Nanomaterials: Needs for the Next Decade, ACS Central Science 2015, 1 (3), 117-123. DOI:10.1021/acscentsci.5b00182

Galen T. Craven and Rigoberto Hernandez, Lagrangian descriptors of thermalized transition states on time-varying energy surfaces, Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115 (34), 148301. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.148301

Matthew C. Hagy and Rigoberto Hernandez, Dynamical simulation of dipolar Janus colloids: equilibrium structure and thermodynamics, Journal of Chemical Physics 2012, 137 (34), 044505. DOI: 10.1063/1.4737432

Alexander V. Popov and Rigoberto Hernandez, The ontology of temperature in nonequilibrium systems, Journal of Chemical Physics 2007 (34), 126, 244506. DOI: 10.1063/1.2743032

d. Synergistic Activities 

Professional Service: District IV Director, Board of Directors, American Chemical Society (2014-2019); heavily involved in national ACS Governance activities since 2003, and use it as a platform to promote the integration of research and education in our profession.

Education: Chair/Founder, Academic Leadership Training (ALT) Workshop (2016-present). This yearly workshop has served over 120 mid-career professors from PUI and RI colleges and universities to accelerate their entry and success as department chairs, deans, provosts and center directors.

Scientific Advisement: Member, Sloan Minority PhD Advisory Committee, Sloan Foundation (2013-present) Through this and other roles, I have advised Foundations and Universities to better serve a broad cohort of students towards STEM careers.

Promoting Diversity: Chair/Founder, National Diversity Equity Workshops (2011-2019). Through five workshops in addition to published articles and presentations, I have engaged chemistry departments and their leadership in identifying and rectifying barriers to diversity equity within their professional cultures.

Broad Dissemination: Blogging on EveryWhereChemistry.blogspot.com since April 23, 2013, presently with over 140,000 page views. Through my posts abd tweets, I have provided general public descriptions of my articles, advice on how to be as scientists, advocated for science, and other topics relevant to my synergistic activities.