Andrew Mabe Email & Phone Number

Livermore, Ca

• Synthetic/Polymer Chemist• Development and synthesis of organic scintillators for radiation detection• Development and synthesis of polysiloxane foams, both Sn- and Pt-cured• Synthesis of materials for additive manufacturing• Synthesis of ligands for metal complexation• Synthesis of molecules for AChE reactivation

Livermore, Ca

• Design and fabrication of plastic scintillators for radiation detection• Implementation of pulse shape discrimination to identify and discriminate between different types of radiation in scintillators• Investigated electronic distribution of a library of lithium salts to exploit differences in coordination chemistry for applications in optical materials.• Synthesized a library of fluorescent indole derivatives and investigated their properties. These molecules form amorphous glasses.• Worked on a team to fabricate a device for antineutrino detection.• Participated in developing technology and working with industrial partners to commercialize technology.• Synthesis of oximes for reactivation of phosphorylated acetylcholinesterase.• Analyzed the reaction kinetics of 7-component room temperature vulcanized silicon-based foams.• Compositional optimization RTV foams for load-bearing applications.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• I sold life and supplemental health insurance.• I recruited, trained, and managed new agents.• I was promoted to supervisor after only one month of employment.

Knoxville, Tn

• I worked on a multidisciplinary project to develop thin-film plastic scintillators and inorganic glasses for homeland security and fundamental physics applications.• Though my formal degree is in polymer chemistry, my research involved the implementation organic, inorganic, polymeric, hybrid organic/inorganic, sol-gel, inorganic glass, and composite materials synthesis.• I successfully synthesized a multitude of novel small organic molecules, copolymers, terpolymers, composites, sol-gel materials, aerogels, and inorganic glasses.• I discovered a new method using density functional theory by which relative scintillation efficiencies of organic polymers and crystals can be predicted from first principles.• I helped teach the Advanced Inorganic Chemistry undergraduate course.• I helped design and teach a graduate level Scintillation Materials course.

Knoxville, Tn

• I synthesized aryl vinyl polymers by free radical and anionic polymerization techniques.• I synthesized fluorescent polymers by condensation polymerization.• I fabricated lithium- and boron-loaded polymer composites for thermal neutron detection.

Knoxville, Tn

• I worked as an undergraduate researcher in a synthetic organic chemistry research laboratory.• I gained experience with conventional synthetic organic chemistry techniques, separations methods, a wide variety of molecular identification techniques.• As an undergraduate, I synthesized designer lipids to study protein binding with animal cells. I also worked on an 11-step synthesis to make a tetrahelical molecule to study homochirogenesis. Additionally, I synthesized a library of compounds by Suzuki coupling which were used to study microfibril deterioration in plant cells.

Knoxville, Tn

• I helped teach the undergraduate Organic Chemistry laboratory course.• I managed chemical and glassware inventory.• I synthesized organic compounds to be used as precursors for students’ experiments.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Polymer Chemistry, 4.00/4.00

Dissertation: Neutron Scintillation Detectors Based on Polymers Containing Lithium-6 for Radiation Portal Monitor Applications.

Bachelor Of Science In Chemistry, Chemistry, 3.70/4.00

Activities and Societies: Member of Golden Key Honor Society, 2008 - 2010. Chaired the Better World Books drive (2009).