Julia Kalow
{{short description|American synthetic chemist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Julia Ann Kalow
| workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
| alma_mater = Columbia University
Princeton University
| doctoral_advisor = Abigail Doyle
| thesis_title = Catalytic strategies for asymmetric nucleophilic fluorination using a latent HF source: development and mechanistic investigations
| thesis_year = 2013
| thesis_url = https://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp011j92g754v
}}
Julia Ann Kalow is an assistant professor of chemistry at Northwestern University. She is primarily a synthetic chemist, who works on polymers, photochemistry and tissue engineering. She is interested in synthetic strategies that can turn molecular structure and chemical reactivity into macroscopic properties. She has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Thieme Award and was selected by the University of Chicago as a Rising Star in Chemistry.
Early life and education
Kalow is from Newton, Massachusetts. She studied chemistry and creative writing at Columbia University. She played the flute for the Columbia University Wind Ensemble. She worked with James L. Leighton on the synthesis of isocyclocitrinol and on an enantioselective imino-Nazarov reaction.{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/leighton/group.html|title=Leighton Group Members|website=www.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-08-24}} During this placement she became more interested in a research career.{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2017/02/reactions-julia-kalow.html|title=Reactions: Julia Kalow : The Sceptical Chymist|website=blogs.nature.com|access-date=2019-08-24}} She was awarded the Chemistry Undergraduate Award and Brownstein Writing Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/newsletter/n1/newsletter1/awards.html|title=Newsletter|website=www.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-08-24}} She was also the salutatorian of her graduating class at Columbia.{{Cite web|title=Klein Addresses Newest Alumni {{!}} Columbia College Today|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/jul_aug08/features1|access-date=2022-01-29|website=www.college.columbia.edu}} She worked as an intern at Merck Research Laboratories, where she investigated trifluoromethylation using metal catalysts. In 2008 Kalow joined Princeton University as a graduate student with Abigail Doyle.{{Cite web|url=https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/A+Day+in+the+LifeA+Julia+Kalow/1_0y10ifiw|title=A Day in the Life: Julia Kalow|website=Princeton University Media Central|language=en|access-date=2019-08-24}} Together they worked on asymmetric nucleophilic fluorination. She used cooperative catalysis in fluorination reactions, which allowed for selective radiofluorination.{{Cite web|url=https://chemistry.princeton.edu/video/106247867|title=Video {{!}} Princeton University Department of Chemistry|website=chemistry.princeton.edu|access-date=2019-08-24}} Her work was awarded an American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship.{{Cite web|url=https://www.organicdivision.org/fellowships/|title=Graduate Research Fellowships|website=ACS Division of Organic Chemistry|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-24}}
Research and career
In 2013 Kalow joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow with Timothy M. Swager. She worked on telechelic P3HT synthesis, as well as miktoarm polymers using ring-opening metathesis polymerisation. Kalow became interested in the use of complex emulsions in enzyme sensing, as well as self-assembly of block copolymers.{{Cite web|url=https://chemistry.stanford.edu/events/dr-julia-kalow-mit|title=Dr. Julia Kalow, MIT {{!}} Department of Chemistry|website=chemistry.stanford.edu|access-date=2019-08-24}}
She joined Northwestern University in 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-new-professor.html.html|title=A year in the life of a new professor|website=cen.acs.org|access-date=2019-08-24}} She is a member of the National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Polymers.{{Cite web|url=https://csp.umn.edu/team/julia-kalow/|title=CSP Team|website=UMN|access-date=2019-08-24}} Her work considers organic synthesis and polymer chemistry, and is interested in photoresponsive materials.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-biodegradable-plastic-bags-dont-live-up-to-their-name|title=How biodegradable plastic bags don't live up to their name|date=2019-05-02|website=PBS NewsHour|language=en-us|access-date=2019-08-24}} This includes creating polymers with controlled chain lengths using selective photoexcitation. To achieve this, Kalow is developing photochemically gated junctions, which allow spatiotemporal control of junction dynamics. These junctions permit for transient regions of fast and slow exchange dynamics, which operate over long length scales.{{Cite web|url=https://monet.duke.edu/the-team/|title=The MONET Team – MONET|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-24}} Her group are also developing hydrogels that can be controlled using light.{{Cite journal|last1=Kalow|first1=Julia A.|last2=Accardo|first2=Joseph V.|date=2018-07-11|title=Reversibly tuning hydrogel stiffness through photocontrolled dynamic covalent crosslinks|journal=Chemical Science|language=en|volume=9|issue=27|pages=5987–5993|doi=10.1039/C8SC02093K|pmid=30079213|pmc=6050525|issn=2041-6539}} In 2017 Kalow was named a Searle Fellow at Northwestern University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.northwestern.edu/provost/faculty-honors/searle-fellows/|title=Searle Fellows Program: Office of the Provost - Northwestern University|website=www.northwestern.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-08-24}}
= Selected publications =
Her publications include;
- {{Cite journal|title=Enantioselective ring opening of epoxides by fluoride anion promoted by a cooperative dual-catalyst system|last=Kalow|first=Julia|date=2010|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=132|issue=10|pages=3268–3269|doi=10.1021/ja100161d|pmid=20163118|s2cid=35560131 }}
- {{Cite journal|url= |title=Dynamically reconfigurable complex emulsions via tunable interfacial tensions|last=Kalow|first=Julia|date=2015|journal=Nature|volume=518|issue=7540|pages=520–524|doi=10.1038/nature14168|pmid=25719669|pmc=4504698|bibcode=2015Natur.518..520Z}}
- {{Cite journal|title=Mechanistic Investigations of Cooperative Catalysis in the Enantioselective Fluorination of Epoxides|last=Julia A.|first=Kalow|date=2011|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=133|issue=40|pages=16001–16012|doi=10.1021/ja207256s|pmid=21863842|s2cid=207072935 }}
= Awards and honours =
Her awards and honours include;
- 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship{{Cite web |title=Three Northwestern professors named Sloan Research Fellows |url=https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/02/sloan-research-fellows/ |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=news.northwestern.edu |language=en}}
- 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award{{Cite web|date=2021-04-30|title=2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards|url=https://www.dreyfus.org/2021-camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar-awards/|access-date=2021-06-10|website=Dreyfus Foundation|language=en-US}}
- 2019 National Science Foundation CAREER Award{{Cite web|url=https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/06/two-young-faculty-members-receive-prestigious-nsf-career-awards/|title=Two young faculty members receive prestigious NSF CAREER awards|website=news.northwestern.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1847948|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1847948 - CAREER: Photocontrolled Dynamic Covalent Crosslinkers for Light-Responsive Polymer Networks|website=nsf.gov|access-date=2019-08-24}}
- 2019 American Chemical Society PMSE Young Investigator{{Cite web|url=https://csp.umn.edu/2019/07/12/julia-kalow-recognized-as-pmse-young-investigator/|title=Julia Kalow Recognized as PMSE Young Investigator|last=Kalow|first=Julia|date=2019-07-12|website=UMN|access-date=2019-08-24}}
- 2018 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.chemistry.northwestern.edu/about/news/2018/kalow-receives-3m-non-tenured-faculty-award.html|title=Kalow Receives 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award: Department of Chemistry - Northwestern University|website=www.chemistry.northwestern.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-08-24}}
- 2018 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.thieme.de/en/thieme-chemistry/thieme-chemistry-journals-award-previous-winners-107365.htm|title=Previous Winners - Thieme Chemistry - Georg Thieme Verlag|website=Thieme|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-24}}
- 2017 Air Force Research Laboratory Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1339310/afosr-awards-grants-to-45-scientists-and-engineers-through-its-young-investigat/|title=AFOSR Awards Grants to 45 Scientists and Engineers through its Young I|website=Wright-Patterson AFB|date=11 October 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-24}}
- 2015 University of Chicago Rising Star in Chemistry
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
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