APRIL D. JEWELL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Mail Stop 300-315
Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-3474
april.jewell@me.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/apriljewell
EDUCATION
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2013, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2012, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Areas of Specialization: Surface Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
Thesis: “Atomic Diffusion and Molecular Self-Assembly on Metal Surfaces”
B.S. in Chemistry, 2002, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Cum Laude with Special Honors in Chemistry
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 2002-2007
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Research: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2012-2013
Research Adviser: Dr. Shouleh Nikzad
Doctoral Research: Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, 2007-2012
Research Adviser: Prof. Charles H. Sykes
Employment Research: Engineering Directorate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2002-2007
Undergraduate Research, Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, 1999-2002,
Research Adviser: Prof. Houston Miller
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
UCLA Extension: CCD/CMOS Imaging Sensors and Application
National Instruments: LabVIEW Basics I and II
AVS Short Course: Atomic Layer Deposition
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant:
Chemical Fundamentals, Tufts University, 2007
Chemistry of Materials, Tufts University, 2008
Chemical Principles, Tufts University, 2008
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HONORS AND AWARDS
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NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, 2012
American Vacuum Society Surface Science Division Morton M. Traum Award, 2012
American Vacuum Society Russell and Sigurd Varian Award, 2012
10th International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces Young Scientist Prize, 2011
71st Physical Electronics Conference Poster Prize, 2011
Tufts Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Academic Performance, Ph.D. Level, 2011
Guinness World Records, World’s Smallest Electric Motor, 2011
240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society Colloid & Surface Science Division
Poster Prize, 2010
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009-2012
George Washington University A.D. Britt Scholar, 2002
Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2001
George Washington University A.D. Britt Scholarship, 2000
George Washington University Presidential Science Scholarship, 1998-2000
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journals
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A.D. Jewell, G. Peng, M.F.G. Mattera, E.A. Lewis, C.J. Murphy, G. Kyriakou, M. Mavrikakis and E.
C. H. Sykes, “Quantum Tunneling Enabled Self-Assembly of Hydrogen Atoms on Cu(111)” ACS Nano,
6 (2012) 10115-10121.
2. G. Kyriakou, M.B. Boucher, A.D. Jewell, E.A. Lewis, T.J. Lawton, A.E. Baber, H.L. Tierney, M.
Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Isolated Metal Atom Geometries as a Strategy for
Selective Heterogeneous Hydrogenations” Science, 335 (2012) 1209-1212.
3. A.D. Jewell, S. Simpson, A. Enders, E. Zurek, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Magic Electret Clusters of 4Fluorostyrene on Metal Surfaces” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 3 (2012) 2069-2075.
4. A.D. Jewell, E.C.H. Sykes and G. Kyriakou, “Molecular-Scale Surface Chemistry of a Common Metal
Nanoparticle Capping Agent: Triphenylphosphine on Au(111)” ACS Nano, 6 (2012) 3545-3552.
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A.D. Jewell, S.J. Kyran, D. Rabinovich, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Effect of Head Group Chemistry on
Surface-Mediated Molecular Self-Assembly” Chemistry: A European Journal, 18 (2012) 7169-7178.
6. E.A. Lewis, D. Le, C.J. Murphy, A.D. Jewell, M.F.G. Mattera, M.L. Liriano, T.S. Rahman and E.C.H.
Sykes, “Dissociative Hydrogen Adsorption on Close-Packed Cobalt Nanoparticle Surfaces” Journal of
Physical Chemistry C, 116 (2012) 25868-25873.
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A.F. McGuire, A.D. Jewell, T.J. Lawton, C.J. Murphy, E.A. Lewis, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Hydrogen
Bonding in Thioether Self-Assembly” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116 (2012) 14992-14997.
8. E.A. Lewis, A.D. Jewell, G. Kyriakou and E.C.H. Sykes, “Rediscovering Cobalt’s Surface Chemistry”
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14 (2012) 7215-7224.
9. H.L. Tierney, A.D. Jewell, A.E. Baber, E.V. Iski, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Viewing and Inducing Symmetry
Breaking in the Single Molecule Limit” Chirality, 24 (2012) 1051-1054.
10. E.V. Iski, A.D. Jewell, H.L. Tierney, G. Kyriakou and E.C.H. Sykes, “Controllable and Reversible
Restructuring of a Metal Substrate: Tuning the Surface Morphology of Gold” Surface Science, 606
(2012) 536-541.
11. A.D. Jewell, H.L. Tierney, O. Zenasni, T.R. Lee, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Asymmetric Thioethers as
Building Blocks for Chiral Monolayers” Topics in Catalysis, 54 (2011) 1357-1367.
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12. H.L. Tierney, C.J. Murphy, A.D. Jewell, A.E. Baber, E.V. Iski, H.Y. Khodaverdian, A.F. McGuire, N.
Klebanov, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Experimental Demonstration of a Single-Molecule Electric Motor”
Nature Nanotechnology, 6 (2011) 625-629 (Journal Cover Art by A.D. Jewell and H.L. Tierney).
13. E.V. Iski, A.D. Jewell, H.L. Tierney, G. Kyriakou and E.C.H. Sykes, "Organic Thin Film Induced
Substrate Restructuring; An STM Study of the Interaction of Naphtho[2,3-a]pyrene with Au(111)"
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, 29 (2011) 040601 Featured in the July 18, 2011 issue
of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
14. E.V. Iski, H.L. Tierney, A.D. Jewell, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Spontaneous Transmission of Chirality
through Multiple Length Scales” Chemistry: A European Journal, 17 (2011) 7205-7217.
15. H.L. Tierney, J.W. Han, A.D. Jewell, E.V. Iski, A.E. Baber, D. Sholl, E.C.H. Sykes, “Chirality and
Rotation of Asymmetric Surface-Bound Thioethers” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 (2011) 897901.
16. A.D. Jewell, H.L. Tierney and E.C.H. Sykes, “Gently Lifting Gold’s Herringbone Reconstruction:
Trimethylphosphine on Au(111)” Physical Review B, 82 (2010) 205401. Featured in the November 8,
2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
17. A.D. Jewell, H.L Tierney, A.E. Baber, E.V. Iski M.M. Laha and E.C.H. Sykes, “Time-Resolved
Studies of Individual Molecular Rotors” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 22 (2010) 264006.
18. D.O. Bellisario, A.D. Jewell, H.L. Tierney, A.E. Baber, and E.C.H. Sykes, “Adsorption, Assembly and
Dynamics of Dibutyl Sulfide on Au(111)” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114 (2010) 14583-14589.
19. H.L. Tierney, A.D. Jewell, A.E. Baber, E.V. Iski and E.C.H. Sykes, “Dynamics of Molecular
Adsorption and Rotation on Non-Equilibrium Sites” Langmuir, 26 (2010) 15350-15355.
20. H.L. Tierney, A.E. Baber, A.D. Jewell, E.V. Iski, M.B. Boucher and E.C.H. Sykes, “Mode-Selective
Electrical Excitation of a Molecular Rotor” Chemistry: A European Journal, 15 (2009) 9678-9680.
21. A.D. Jewell, T.J. Jones, M.P. Sinha and S. Nikzad, “Simultaneous Direct Detection of sub keV
Molecular and Atomic Ions with a Delta-doped Charge-Coupled Device at the Focal Plane of a
Miniature Mass Spectrometer” Applied Physics Letters, 88 (2006) 043501.
22. A.V. Shevade, M.L. Homer, C.J. Taylor, H.Y. Zhou, A.D. Jewell, K.S. Manatt, A.K. Kisor, S.-P.S Yen,
M.A. Ryan, “Correlating Polymer-Carbon Composite Sensor Response with Molecular Descriptors”
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 153 (2006) H209-H216.
23. Z.H. Zhou, C. Uher, A.D. Jewell and T. Caillat, “Influence of Point-Defect Scattering on the Lattice
Thermal Conductivity of Solid Solution Co(Sb1-x Asx)3” Physical Review B, 71 (2005) 235209.
24. A.D. Jewell, T. Caillat and J.A. Paik “Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of CeyRu4-xIrxSb12”,
Materials Research Society Fall 2005 Meeting Proceedings (November 2005).
Book Chapters
25. M.L. Homer, H. Zhou, A.D. Jewell and M.A. Ryan, “Statistical Methods for Selecting the
Components of a Sensing Array” Computational Methods for Sensor Material Selection. Ed. M.A.
Ryan, et al. New York: Springer, 2009. 245-264.
26. A.V. Shevade, M.A. Ryan, M.L. Homer, H. Zhou, A.M. Manfreda, L.M. Lara, S.P.S. Yen, A.D. Jewell,
K.S. Manatt, and A.K. Kisor, “Chemical Sensor Array Response Modeling Using Quantitative
Structure-Activity Relationships Technique” Computational Methods for Sensor Material Selection.
Ed. M.A. Ryan, et al. New York: Springer, 2009. 167-192.
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Patents
27. M.A. Ryan, M.L. Homer, S.-P.S. Yen, A. Kisor, A.D. Jewell, A.V. Shevade, K.S. Manatt, C. Taylor, M.
Blanco, W.A. Goddard, “Co-polymer Films for Sensors” Patent 8,338,552. December 2012.
28. M.L. Homer, D.L. Jan, A.D. Jewell, A. Kisor, K.S. Manatt, A.M. Manfreda, M.A. Ryan, A.V. Shevade,
C.J. Taylor, S-P.S. Yen, and H. Zhou, “System for Detecting and Estimating Concentrations of a Gas or
Liquid Analytes” Patent 8,024,133. September 2011.
29. M.A. Ryan, M.L. Homer, S.-P.S. Yen, A. Kisor, A.D. Jewell, A.V. Shevade, K.S. Manatt, C. Taylor, M.
Blanco, W.A. Goddard, “Co-polymer Films for Sensors” Patent 7,858,720. December 2010.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society
Chair - Young Chemists Committee, 2011
Secretary/Webmaster – Young Chemists Committee, 2012
Member - German Exchange Steering Committee, 2011-2012
Chemistry Graduate Student Council at Tufts University
Vice-President, 2010-2011
OUTREACH EXPERIENCE
Science Club for Girls Volunteer, 2008-2011
Created YouTubeTM videos for STM – over 50,000 views
Mentor for Malden High School Internship Program, 2009
High school visits and in-class demonstration of STM, 2009-2010
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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American Institute for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Vacuum Society
Materials Research Society
Graduate Women in Science
ADDITIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
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72nd Physical Electronics Conference Nottingham Prize Finalist, 2012
86th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium Langmuir Student Prize Finalist, 2012
NanoWorcester Student Elevator Speech and Poster Prize Finalist, 2012
Tufts University “Visualizing Research at Tufts”, Non-Interactive Media 1st Place, 2012
NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Patent Award, 2012
Graduate Women in Science Travel Grant, 2011
Tufts University “Visualizing Research at Tufts”, Photography 1st Place, 2011
NASA Group Achievement Award, 2010
NASA Space Act Board Award, 2010
NASA Space Act Board Award, 2008
NASA Space Act Board Award, 2007
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