Alexandra T. Barth

Education

Postdoc Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 2023 to present.
                Ultrafast spectroscopy of ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) activation.
                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.

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, FY2017.
Research Experience for Undergraduates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. 
Department of Energy Integrated University Program Fellowship, FY2016.

Awards

CAS Future Leaders Program, CAS Division of the American Chemical Society, 2025.
Profile by NC State Graduate School (Spring 2025).
Leadership in Mentoring Recognition, American Chemical Society, 2025.
Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award, Caltech CCE Division, 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.
Undergraduate-Level Courses: General Chemistry II, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II.
Graduate-Level Courses: 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.