Rebecca Lindsey

Rebecca Lindsey is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and by courtesy, of Materials Science & Engineering, Applied Physics, and Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan (U-M). She is a member of the KIM Review Editorial Board, Institute of Computational Science & Engineering Advisory Board, Executive Committee Member of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, and is the founding directory of the U-M Simulation Center. Dr. Lindsey received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Wayne State University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She went on to become a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where she worked as a Research Scientist for several years, leading research teams within the Energetic Materials Center. Dr. Lindsey has worked in computational chemistry and materials science throughout her career, with applications spanning, e.g., sorption in soft materials, possible mechanisms for the origins of life, and detonation synthesis of unusual carbon nanoparticles. Throughout, her work has been underpinned by a strong interest in developing tools enabling work in previously inaccessible problem spaces. Her develops data science, machine learning, and computer vision software to accelerate simulation and to aid in interpretation and use of large experimental datasets. Her efforts were recently recognized through the LLNL Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Research Award and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award.