PhD Thesis Defense Announcement

Student Name: Lucas Timmerman

Thesis Title: Advancing on-the-fly Machine Learned Force Fields and Leveraging Electronic Structure Theory for Computational Catalysis

Thesis Advisor: Andrew J. Medford

Thesis Co-Advisor: Phanish Suryanarayana

Committee Members: Matthew Realff (ChBE), Julia Yang (ChBE), Vanda Glezakou (ORNL), Victor Fung (CSE), Thomas Gartner (Lehigh ChBE)

Date: 7/13/2026

Time: 10 AM

Location: Ford ES&T L1175