Dr. Gabe Gomes

Biography

Gabe Gomes joined Carnegie Mellon University in 2022 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research program focuses on the development of new chemical reactions, catalysts, and materials utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning for automated synthesis. Gomes' work lies at the interface of machine learning and organic chemistry, aiming to create new platforms for autonomous reaction discovery with an emphasis on catalysis. He previously served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toronto in the Matter Lab under Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik, where he worked on designing catalysts with artificial intelligence. Gomes earned his Ph.D. from Florida State University in Fall 2018, where his research centered on the relationship between molecular structure and reactivity, particularly in the development of stereoelectronic effects. He has received several awards, including the FSU Graduate Student Research Creativity Award and the ACS COMP Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he focused on theoretical studies of chemical reactions. Additionally, he has contributed significantly to the field through various prestigious scholarships and fellowships.

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