March 26, 2014

Cody Schlenker to join faculty

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Cody Schlenker will be joining the Department as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Schlenker conducted his undergraduate work in chemistry at Linfield College, where he studied porphyrin synthesis with Professor Thomas J. Reinert, followed by an NSF REU in chemical engineering at Cornell University researching hydrogels for soil remediation with Professor Claude Cohen. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where he synthesized small molecule dyes and charge transport materials and developed advanced device concepts for thin film photovoltaics with Professor Mark E. Thompson as an Anton B. Burg Foundation Fellow in Chemistry. He is presently an NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor David S. Ginger in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington studying photoinduced charge transfer and recombination in novel semiconducting polymers relevant for light harvesting applications.

Dr. Schlenker will launch his program at the University of Washington in July 2014. His research interests concern the integration of spectroscopy, synthesis, and electrical characterization to develop new insight into the mechanisms governing energy transduction in heterogeneous materials relevant for solar energy harvesting and storage devices like organic and organic/inorganic photovoltaics and meso-structured next-generation rechargeable batteries.

For more information, please visit his faculty page or contact him directly via email at schlenk@uw.edu.