Joseph Schneider

jeschneider [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Joseph grew up in Illinois and Kentucky, and then moved out west for his undergraduate studies at Caltech where he earned a B.S. in Chemistry and History in 2018. There, he developed an interest in physical inorganic chemistry which lead to pursue a Ph.D. under Prof. John Anderson at UChicago. His thesis focused on how the basicity and oxidation potential of transition metal-oxo complexes affect their C-H cleavage reactivity, and he also developed a new oxidatively robust ligand for the stabilization of highly oxidized transition metal complexes. In 2024 he started postdoctoral studies in Prof. John Hartwig's laboratory where he works on the development of new artificial metalloenzymes, with a particular interest in how computational methods can be used to design more active and selective catalysts. Outside of the lab, he likes cooking, hiking, and riding his bike.