Jonathan Schultz
Dr. Jonathan Schultz received his B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Northwestern University as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, working with Profs. Michael Wasielewski and Mark Ratner.
Prior to joining North Carolina Central University in August 2025, he was an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. David Beratan at Duke University. His research combines theory, machine learning, and experiments to examine how energy and charge move through natural and artificial molecular constructs. He is passionate about teaching and about empowering students to explore and make discoveries in the world around them.
Courses
Publications
Schultz, J. D.; Parker, K. A.; Sbaiti, B.; Beratan, D. N. Using machine learning to map simulated noisy and laser-limited multidimensional spectra to molecular electronic couplings. Digit. Discov. 2025, 4, 1912-1924.
Sbaiti, B.; Schultz, J. D.; Parker, K. A.; Beratan, D. N. Machine learning for video classification enables quantifying intermolecular couplings from simulated time-evolved multidimensional spectra. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16 (19), 4707–4714.
Schultz, J. D.; Parker, K.; Therien, M.; Beratan, D. N. Efficiency limits of energy conversion by light-driven redox chains. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146(47), 32805–3281.
Schultz, J. D.; Yuly, J.; Arsenault, E.; Parker, K.; Chowdhury, S.; Dani, R.; Kundu, S; Nuomin, H.; Zhang, Z.; Valdiviezo, J.; Zhang, P.; Orcutt, K.; Jang, S. J.; Fleming, G. R.; Makri, N.; Ogilvie, J.; Therien, M.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Beratan, D. N. Coherence Phenomena in Chemistry: Foundations and Frontiers. Chem. Rev. 2024, 124 (21), 11641-11766.
Kim, T.; Lin, C.; Schultz, J. D.; Young, R. M.; Wasielewski, M. R. π-Stacking-Dependent Vibronic Couplings Drive Excited-State Dynamics in Perylenediimide Assemblies. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (25), 11386–11396.
Schultz, J. D.; Kim, T.; O’Connor, J. P.; Young, R. M.; Wasielewski, M. R. Coupling between harmonic vibrations influences quantum beating signatures in two-dimensional electronic spectra. J. Phys. Chem. C. 2022, 126 (1), 120-131.
Petrosko, S. H.; D. Coleman, B. D.; Drout, R. J.; Schultz, J. D.; Mirkin, C. A. Spherical Nucleic Acids: Integrating Nanotechnology Concepts into General Chemistry Curricula. J. Chem. Educ. 2021, 98 (10), 3090–3099
Schultz, J. D.; Shin, J. Y.; Chen, M.; O’Connor, J. P.; Young, R. M.; Ratner, M. A.; Wasielewski, M. R. Influence of Vibronic Coupling on Ultrafast Singlet Fission in a Linear Terrylenediimide Dimer. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (4), 2049–2058.
Schultz, J. D.; Coleman, A. F.; Mandal, A.; Ratner, M. A; Young, R. M.; Wasielewski, M. R. Steric Interactions Impact Vibronic and Vibrational Coherences in Perylenediimide Cyclophanes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 7498-7504.