Jay Foley, Ph.D.

Jay Foley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Chemistry
Burson 141
Education: B.S. (Chemistry, with High Honors): Georgia Institute of Technology M.S. (Chemistry): University of Chicago Ph.D. (Chemistry): University of Chicago Postdoc: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab Field of Interest: Physical Chemistry Research Focus: Dr. Foley is a theoretical physical chemist with an interest in light-matter interactions in nanoscale and molecular systems. Teaching: Dr. Foley loves teaching students about physical chemistry, theory and computation, and nanoscale phenomena. My group participates in a collaborative called the “Enhancing Science Courses by Integrating Python” (ESCIP) Network. We are building a set of interactive and open Jupyter notebooks, and are also hosting a series of regional workshops to build capacities for integrating python programming into Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy courses. Research Group Page Awards:
  • Department of Energy Computational Chemical Science Award – 2022-2025
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award – 2021-2026
  • Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement Cottrell Scholar Award – 2019-2023
  • American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Undergraduate New Investigator Award – 2018-2020
Recent publications:  1.     Vu, N.; Mejia-Rodriguez, D.; Bauman, N.; Panyala, A.; Mutlu, E.; Govind, N.; *Foley IV, J. J; Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Complete Active Space Configuration Interaction Theory, J. Chem. Theor. Comput., 20, 1214-1227 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01207 2.     Hodgins, H.; Foley IV, J. J.; Govorov, A.; Gray, S.; Hamilton, I.; Emergence of a low energy peak in the smoothed absolute value circular dichroism spectra of small helical gold nanorods, Accepted in ACS Omega, 9, 5224-5229 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c04943 3.     Shibu, A.; Jones, S. P.; Tolley, L. P.; Diaz, D.; Kwiatkowski, C. O.; Jones, D. S.; Shivas, J. M.; Foley IV, J. J., Schmedake, T. A.; Walter, M. G. Correlating structure and photophysical properties in thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole crystal derivatives for use in solid-state photonic and fluorscnence-based devices, Mater. Adv., 4, 6321-6332 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MA00686G 4.     *Foley IV, J. J.; McTague, J..; *A. E. DePrince III, Ab initio methods for polariton chemistry, Chem. Phys. Rev., 4, 041301 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0167243