Dr. Fredin (Fred+Dean) earned her B.S. in chemistry, biochemistry, and applied mathematics with a minor in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. After taking advantage of undergraduate research opportunities in fields from microbiology to synthetic inorganic chemistry, she went to graduate school at Northwestern University, where she completed a joint computational-experimental Ph.D. in the groups of Mark A. Ratner and Tobin J. Marks, synthesizing molecules, measuring material properties, and modeling devices of hybrid organic-inorganic dielectrics. Choosing to focus on theoretical chemistry, she accepted a postdoctoral associateship at Lund University in Sweden with Petter Persson, where she modeled the photochemistry of transition-metal complexes for light-harvesting.
She chose to come back to the states after two years as a National Research Council Research Associate to develop new computational tools that reduce the cost of screening materials for energy storage and generation applications at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD.
Dr. Fredin’s research portfolio, initiated in 2015 at NIST, draws on her background combining experiment and theory to develop computational and theoretical models of fundamental electronic properties to design materials with targeted properties.
