Jacob (Terry) Blaskovits hired at the University of Alberta

Jacob (Terry) Blaskovits joined the group of Dr. Denis Andrienko at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) as a postdoctoral fellow in autumn 2023. He obtained his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPF/ETH Lausanne, Switzerland), working on the data-driven design of organic electronic materials in the group of Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf. He received his MSc at Université Laval (Québec City, Canada) as a Schmeelk Canada fellow in 2018, working under the supervision of Profs. Mario Leclerc (polymer chemistry) and Paul

Johnson (computational chemistry). In 2016, he was awarded an NSERC foreign study fellowship to conduct research for half a year in the group of Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA). He received a BSc from Université Laval in 2016 as an inaugural Schulich Leader scholar. Beyond his research activities, he is a passionate educator and classical musician, and has taught music and science at Gandhi Ashram School in rural northern India in 2018-2019.

He will join the University of Alberta Department of Chemistry in summer 2025 as an Assistant Professor.