Gerrick Lindberg

I was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, but I grew up in Oregon. I received my undergraduate degree from Oregon State University in Advanced Chemistry, with minors in Mathematics and History. While at OSU, I worked in the lab of Professor John Hays in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology. My time in Professor Hays lab made me aware of the possibilities of doing science and working in a lab, which set me on the track to become a scientist. After graduating in 2005, I traveled across the country to perform graduate research in the group of Professor Feng Wang at Boston University. My graduate work centered on developing efficient, computational non-equilibrium enhanced sampling methods and applying them to quantitatively characterize the behavior of methane clathrate and ice Ih. After earning my PhD in 2011, I joined Professor Greg Voth's group at the University of Chicago. At UChicago, I was part of a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative collaborating with groups from UChicago, the Colorado School of Mines, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Delaware working to design robust membranes for use in anion exchange membrane fuel cells. I helped develop the multistate reactive molecular dynamics method and implement hydroxide multistate molecular models. These methods were applied to study ion transport and structure in amorphous membrane environments. In 2014, I joined Northern Arizona University as an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry. In 2020, I was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.