Paul Johns Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Notre Dame, IN

The GAANN Fellowship is a fellowship designed to promote academic careers and provides opportunities to develop teaching expertise.Instructor, Physical Chemistry II, Spring 2014– Lesson composition and instruction, homework composition, and exam composition focusing on statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and kinetic– Received students reviews in the.

Advisor: Dr. Gregory Hartland– Developed procedures to model surface plasmon propagation in nanostructures in two-dimensional and three-dimensional models– Designed and setup a pump/probe transient absorption spectroscopy system– Trained other graduate students in the use of laboratory equipment; clarified manufacturer’s instructions of equipment– Wrote.

– Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Chemical Principles Tutorial, Fall 20133 discussion sessions of about 30 students each; sessions based on based on homework problems– Teaching Assistant, Chemistry Across the Periodic Table (for non-chemistry majors), Spring 20132 sections of laboratory reaching 60 students, emphasis on inorganic synthesis

Notre Dame, IN

– Analyzed patent applications to identify key compounds in existing patents– Corrected chemical diagrams in patent applications– Assisted in preparing declarations and assignments

Loretto, PA

– Developed laboratory experiments for the General Chemistry Laboratory– Maintained instruments and wrote instructional material on their use– Instructor, Organic Chemistry II, Spring 2012Laboratory, emphasis on synthetic chemistry– Instructor, Chemical Principles II, Spring 2012Laboratory, emphasis on basic lab technique, maintaining lab records, and.

Notre Dame, IN

– Began investigating aqueous/polar organic solvent interfaces using molecular dynamics software

Notre Dame, IN

– Teaching Assistant, Chemistry Across the Periodic Table (for chemistry majors), Spring 2008Laboratory, emphasis on inorganic synthesis, nanoscience, and kinetics– Teaching Assistant, Analytical Chemistry, Fall 2007Laboratory, emphasis on use of instrumentation and analytical techniques– Curriculum Developer, Analytical Chemistry, Summer 2007Assisted in.

Loretto, PA

– Tutorial section, assisted students with homework problems, explained concepts, proctored exams

Loretto, PA

– Investigated the effects of protein structure and solvation on the tryptophan fluorescence quantum yield.– Investigated the quenching abilities of tryptophan and N-acetyltryptophanamide in the dyes disodium fluorescein and rhodamine B– Continued project from Montana State University– Projects utilized UVWinLab, CHARMM, ZINDO, GaussView, and Rasmol

Loretto, PA

– Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Human Chemistry I & II, Fall 2004–Spring 2007Laboratory, emphasis on basic lab technique, synthesis, and analysis

Bozeman, MT

– Investigated the quenching mechanisms of dimers of fluorescent dyes using molecular dynamics software

Johnstown, PA

–Validated CI Print Macroscopic Chemical Imaging System™ for detection of latent and patent fingerprints–Assisted in developing a Raman chemical database for identification purposes which was incorporated into the Falcon Molecular Chemical Imaging System™ database

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Physical Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics

Activities and Societies: Honors Program • Kappa Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society (Pennsylvania Mu Chapter President) • Delta Epsilon.

Masters Of Divinity Credits, Theology/Theological Studies