Education / Experience:
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2018 - Present: |
Staff Scientist, CHESS, Cornell University |
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2014 - 2018: |
NIH Postodctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University |
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2011 - 2014: |
Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany |
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2009 - 2011: |
MS in Chemistry, Cornell University |
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2005 - 2009: |
BS in Chemistry, Clemson University |
Research Interests:
Method development and applications of x-ray absorption spectroscopy, x-ray emission spectroscopy, and related two-dimensional techniques (HERFD and RIXS); translating x-ray spectroscopic methods to the time domain, particularly for the study of (bio)inorganic catalysis
Selected Publications:
- Anuj Bhargava, Cindy Y. Chen, Kapil Dhaka, Yuan Yao, Andrew Nelson, Kenneth D. Finkelstein, Christopher J. Pollock, Maytal Caspary Toroker, Richard D. Robinson, “Mn Cations Control Electronic Transport in Spinel CoxMn3–xO4 Nanoparticles,” Chem. Mater., 2019, 31, 4228. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01198)
- Ryan J. Martinie, Elizabeth J. Blaesi, J. Martin Bollinger, Jr., Carsten Krebs, Kenneth D. Finkelstein, Christopher J. Pollock, “Two-Color Valence-to-Core X-ray Emission Spectroscopy Tracks Cofactor Protonation State in a Class I Ribonucleotide Reductase,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 12754. (https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201807366)
- Ryan J. Martinie, Elizabeth J. Blaesi, Carsten Krebs, J. Martin Bollinger, Jr., Alexey Silakov, Christopher J. Pollock, “Evidence for a Di-μ-oxo Diamond Core in the Mn(IV)/Fe(IV) Activation Intermediate of Ribonucleotide Reductase from Chlamydia trachomatis,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 1950. (https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b11563)
- Christopher J. Pollock and Serena DeBeer, “Insights into the Geometric and Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Centers from Valence-to-Core X‑ray Emission Spectroscopy,” Acc. Chem. Res., 2015, 48, 2967. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00309)
- Christopher J. Pollock, Mario Ulises Delgado-Jamie, Mihail Atanasov, Frank Neese, Serena DeBeer, "Kβ Mainline X-ray Emission Spectroscopy as an Experimental Probe of Metal-Ligand Covalency," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 9453. (https://doi.org/10.1021/ja504182n)