Matthew (Matt) Elrod

  • Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1994
  • BA, Grinnell College, 1989

Biography

Matt Elrod taught courses in introductory, environmental and physical chemistry.

Elrod's scholarship centered around air pollution issues, with a focus on gas phase free radical kinetics and aerosol phase chemical reaction mechanism development.

Notes

Matt Elrod and Jason Belitsky Coauthored Article Published in "ACS Earth and Space Chemistry"

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Matt Elrod recently published an article, "A New Potential Atmospheric Accretion Mechanism: Acid-Catalyzed Hetero-Michael Addition Reactions," in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. His coauthors are Becca Fenselau ’22, Ali Alotbi ’23, Caroline Lee ’24, Julia Cronin ’25, and Dan Hill ’21, as well as Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jason Belitsky.

Matt Elrod Coauthored Article Published in "ACS Earth and Space Chemistry"

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biggs Professor of Natural Science Matt Elrod has published an article in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. This publication, "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Atmospherically Relevant Acetalization Reactions," is coauthored by Shira Presberg ’24, Cara Waters ’21, and Sophie Lyon ’22.

 

News

Jane Sedlak ’19 Studies the Chemistry of Wildfire Smoke

Jane Sedlak graduated from Oberlin College in 2019 with a degree in chemistry and was named the winner of Oberlin’s Nexial Prize. Given to a student who demonstrates academic excellence and an interest in cultural study, the Nexial Prize comes with a $50,000 award, which afforded Sedlak the opportunity following graduation to study art conservation at the Louvre in Paris.

2022 Winter Term Recap

More than 2,290 students explored projects and research opportunities outside of their normal course of study during Winter Term. In this wrap-up gallery we look back at some of the group projects students performed.