Alexandra T. Barth

Education

Postdoc Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 2023 to present.
                Photophysics and reactivity of earth-abundant photosensitizers
                Advisor: Prof. Felix (Phil) N. Castellano.
Ph.D.        Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. 2022.
Thesis: Electronic Structures and Reactivity of Metal Complexes
                Advisor: Harry B. Gray.
B.S.          Chemistry with Honors, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. 2017.
Advisor: Prof. Thomas E. Albrecht.

Fellowships

Department of Energy SCGSR Program Internship, 2022.
National Science Foundation INTERN Funding (Declined), 2022.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellowship, 2018-2021.
California Institute of Technology Institutional Research Fellowship, 2017-2018.
Department of Energy Integrated University Program Fellowship, FY2016 & FY2017.
Research Experience for Undergraduates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. 

Awards

CAS Future Leaders Program, CAS Division of the American Chemical Society, 2025.
ACS Postdoc to Faculty Workshop, American Chemical Society, 2024.
Building Future Faculty Program, NCSU Office of Equity and Diversity, 2024.
CAS Future Leaders Top 100, CAS Division of the American Chemical Society, 2024.
Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award, Caltech CCE, 2021-2022.
Women Mentoring Women Outstanding Mentor Award, Caltech Diversity, 2020.
Profile by #SoCaltech (Caltech Magazine, Spring 2020).

Teaching

Guest Lecturer, NC State University, 2023–2024.
Courses: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II, General Chemistry II, Photochemistry and Photophysics.

Teaching Assistant, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Caltech, 2020 & 2022.
Caltech Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach – Certificate of Practice, 2021.
Certificate of Interest in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2019.

Service

Early Career Researcher Advisory Council, BioLEC Early Frontier Research Center.
Judge, North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair, NC Science Fair Foundation.

President (2019) and Treasurer (2018), Women in Chemistry at Caltech.
Coordinator of Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Series, Caltech Chemistry.
Board Member, Caltech Student Alumni Association.