Conor Bready
- Program Year: 1
- Academic Institution: University of California, Berkeley
- Field of Study: Theoretical Chemistry
- Academic Advisor: Eric Neuscamman
- Practicum(s): Practicum Not Yet Completed
- Degree(s):
B.S. Chemistry, and B.S. Applied Mathematics, Furman University, 2024
Publications
Longsworth, O. M.; Bready, C. J.; Shields, G. C. The driving effects of common atmospheric molecules for formation of clusters: the case of sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, and dimethylamine. Environ. Sci.: Atmos. 2023.Longsworth, O. M.; Bready, C. J.; Shields, G. C. The driving effects of common atmospheric molecules for formation of clusters: the case of sulfuric acid, formic acid, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, and dimethylamine. Environ. Sci.: Atmos. 2023. 3, 1335–1351.
Elm, J.; Ayoubi, D.; Engsvang, M.; Jensen, A. B.; Knattrup, Y.; KubeÄka, J.; Bready, C. J.; Fowler, V. R.; Harold, S. E.; Longsworth, O. M.; Shields, G. C. Quantum Chemical Modeling of Organic Enhanced Atmospheric Nucleation: A Critical Review. WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 2022, e1662.
Bready, C. J.; Fowler, V. R.; Juechter, L. A.; Kurfman, L. A.; Mazaleski, G. E.; Shields, G. C. The Driving Effects of Common Atmospheric Molecules for Formation of Prenucleation Clusters: The case of Sulfuric Acid, Formic Acid, Nitric Acid, Ammonia, and Dimethyl Amine. Environ. Sci.: Atmos. 2022, 2 (6), 1469–1486. (PMID: 36561556)
Bready, C. J.; Vanovac, S.; Odbadrakh, T. T.; Shields, G. C. Amino Acids Compete with Ammonia in Sulfuric Acid-Based Atmospheric Aerosol Prenucleation: The Case of Glycine and Serine. J. Phys. Chem. A. 2022, 126 (31), 5195–5206. (PMID: 35896016)
London, H.; Pritchett, D.; Pienkos, J.; McMillen, C.; Whittemore, T.; Bready, C.; Myers, A.; Vieira, N.; Harold, S.; Shields, G.; Wagenknecht, P. The Photochemistry and Photophysics of Charge-Transfer Excited States in Emissive d10/d0 Heterobimetallic Titanocene Tweezer Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61 (28), 10986–10998. (PMID: 35786924)
Harold, S. E.; Bready, C. J.; Juechter, L. A.; Kurfman, L. A.; Vanovac, S.; Fowler, V. R.; Mazaleski, G. E.; Odbadrakh, T. T.; Shields, G. C., Hydrogen-bond topology is more important than acid/base strength in atmospheric prenucleation clusters. J. Phys. Chem. A. 2022, 126 (10), 1718–1728. (PMID: 35235333)
Bready, C. J.; Longsworth, O. M.; Mapakamise, B.; Shields, G. C. Theoretical Investigation of Atmospheric Acids and Bases in New Particle Formation. Presented at the Fall 2023 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, August 13-17, 2023.
Bready, C. J.; Hariharan, A.; Johnson, C. J.; Shields, G. C. Predicting Topologies of Atmospheric Clusters of Sulfuric Acid, Ammonia, and Glycine. Presented at the 21st MERCURY Conference on Computational Chemistry, Greenville, SC, July 19-21, 2023.
Bready, C.; Fowler, V.; Juechter, L.; Kurfman, L.; Mazaleski, G.; Shields, G. Driving Effects of Common Atmospheric Molecules for Formation of Prenucleation Clusters. Presented at the 73rd Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS), San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 19-22, 2022.
Bready, C. J.; Vanaovac, S.; Odbadrakh, T. T.; Shields, G. C. Competition Between Amino Acids and Ammonia in Sulfuric Acid-Based Atmospheric Prenucleation. Presented at the 20th MERCURY Conference on Computational Chemistry, Greenville, SC, July 20-22, 2022.
Bready, C.; Kerpal, C.; Odbadrakh, T.; Jarocha, L.; Shields, G. Computational Calculations of Radical Pair EPR Parameter for Avian Magnetoreception. Presented at the 72nd Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS), Birmingham, AL, November 10-13, 2021.
Bready, C.; Kerpal, C.; Odbadrakh, T.; Jarocha, L.; Shields, G. Comparison of Computational EPR Calculations of DABCO and Xanthone. Presented at the 19th MERCURY Conference on Computational Chemistry, Online, June 4–July 23, 2021.
Awards
Chemistry First Year Research Experience Fellow, 2021Wylie Scholar in Mathematics, 2021
Barry Goldwater Scholarship, 2022
Beckman Scholar, 2022
Outstanding Achievement in Physics 112 Award, 2023
ACS COMP Excellent Poster Presentation for an Undergraduate Researcher Award, 2023
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