Crest Koemel

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Education

Oklahoma State University | Stillwater, OK

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry | Aug 2019 – May 2023

  • GPA : 3.575
  • Activities : Research Assistant, College of Engineering and Technology Solvers, Mentor Collective, Religious Studies Student Organization, Medical Shadowing
  • Honors/Awards : Honors College Award, Wentz Research Scholar, Out of State Achievement, FourJays Dean’s Scholar, Delta Dental of Oklahoma Award

Professional Experience

Professional | AC Jones High School

Administrative Assistant | Jan 2024 - April 2024

  • Manage a substitute base of fifty employees at the high school, coordinating teacher absence with needed coverage with over one-hundred absences per week. Managing absences and record keeping of leave time.
  • Daily document and notify parties of suspensions, detentions, alternative school relocation, and disciplinary action taken on an administrative level.
  • Coordinate over one-hundred school lunches and alternative lunches as well as the notification of each individual student assigned an alternative lunch.

Research Experience

Research | Weaver Lab

Research Assistant | Dec 2020 - May 2023

  • Perform Novel Synthesis of Quaternary Carbon Centers via Photo-catalysis utilizing newly developed photo-reactors.
  • Generate Tertiary Alcohols via Grignard and organolithium reactions on various ketones. Developing Retro-synthetic routes to supply feed stock for photocatalytic reactions. Characterize generated compounds from
    those photocatalytic reactions through qualitative and quantitative means.
  • Maintain, Utilize, and Trouble shoot: Vacuum Lines and pumps, FTIR Spectrometer, Rotovaps, Photoreactors, Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy machine, Flash Chromatography Systems, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer, Analytical Balance Scale, and Glove Box Operations.

Presentations

Presentations | Poster

Wentz: Formation of Quaternary Carbon Centers Via Photocatalysis | May 2022

  • Generation of carbon-carbon bonds via nucleophilic addition to yield unsymmetric diaryl quaternary centers.
    OSU Research Symposium: Capturing of Strain Energy in trans-cyclohexene | May 2022
  • Capturing of strain energy via photoexcitation and bond rotation with intersystem crossing. Generation of strain energy capture is estimated to be ~52 kcal/mol

Core Software Skills

  • Microsoft Office Suite: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Onedrive, Sharepoint
  • Chemical Software: Chemdraw, MestreNova, Topspin, Chimera, Gromacs, Gaussian09, Avogadro, WebMO
  • Langauges and Analysis Suites: Jupyter, Python, SQL, Bash, Zsh, Postgres, Docker
  • Servers: Self-built baremetal server, 25 containerized apps, 8 Virtual Machines, CloudflareDNS, Ubuntu Server, Raspbian, Jupyter Server