Jennifer M Schomaker

Jennifer Schomaker is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research considers the total synthesis of natural and unnatural products. She was selected as an American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awardee in 2021.

Early life and education Schomaker grew up in Michigan. She was an undergraduate student in chemistry at Saginaw Valley State University. She moved to Central Michigan University, where she completed a master's degree under the supervision of Thomas Delia. Her master's research involved the synthesis of aniline derivatives of trihalopyrimidines. She completed her master's research whilst raising two young daughters.

Research and career Schomaker moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher with Robert G. Bergman. At UW–Madison, Schomaker focused on the synthesis of natural and unnatural products, as well as the design of catalysts for tunable, chemo-, regio-, and enantioselective C-H amination reactions.

Awards and honors 2013 Sloan Research Fellow 2013 National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2013 Michigan State University Distinguished Alumni Lecturer 2013 Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Early Excellence Profile 2014 American Chemical Society Women's Chemists Committee Rising Star Award 2015 Michigan State University Recent Alumni Award 2016 Kavli Fellow 2019 University of California, Berkeley Somojai Miller Visiting Professor 2021 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

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