• Argonne Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010
• Ph.D. Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2008
• B.S. Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2001
• B.ChE. Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2001

Recent awards

• U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program, 2018
• American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award, 2018
• Strategic Lab Leadership Program, University of Chicago, 2017
• Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Transactions, New Talent: Americas, 2016

Recent publications

• D. Hayes, L. Kohler, L. X. Chen, K. L. Mulfort. Ligand Mediation of Vectorial Charge Transfer in Cu(I)diimine Chromophore—Acceptor Dyads. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9, 2070-2076. link
• D. Hayes, L. Kohler, R. G. Hadt, X. Zhang, C. Liu, K. L. Mulfort, L. X. Chen. Excited state electron and energy relays in supramolecular dinuclear complexes revealed by ultrafast optical and X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy. Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 860-875. link
• K. L. Mulfort. Interrogation of cobaloxime-based supramolecular photocatalyst architectures, Comptes Rendus Chimie, 2017, 20, 221-229. (Invited perspective to special issue on Artificial Photosynthesis) link
• L. Kohler, R. G. Hadt, D. Hayes, L. X. Chen, K. L. Mulfort. Synthesis, structure, and excited state kinetics of heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes with a new sterically demanding phenanthroline ligand. Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 13088-13100. link
• S. R. Soltau, J. Niklas, P. D. Dahlberg, K. L. Mulfort, O. G. Poluektov, L. M.Utschig. Charge Separation Related to Photocatalytic H₂ Production from a Ru–Apoflavodoxin–Ni Biohybrid, ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2, 230-237. link
• D. Moonshiram, A. Guda, L. Kohler, A. Picon, S. Guda, C. S. Lehmann, X. Zhang, S. H. Southworth, K. L. Mulfort. Mechanistic evaluation of a nickel proton reduction catalyst using time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 20049-20057. link
• S. R. Soltau, P. D. Dahlberg, J. Niklas, O. G. Poluektov, K. L. Mulfort, L. M. Utschig. Ru-protein-Co biohybrids designed for solar hydrogen production: understanding electron transfer pathways related to photocatalytic function, Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 7068-7078. link
• K. L. Mulfort, L. M. Utschig. Modular homogeneous chromophore-catalyst assemblies, Acc. Chem. Res., 2016, 49, 835-843. link
• L. Kohler, D. Hayes, J. Hong, T. J. Carter, M. L. Shelby, K. A. Fransted, L. X. Chen, K. L. Mulfort. Synthesis, structure, ultrafast kinetics, and light-induced dynamics of CuHETPHEN chromophores, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 9871-9883. (Invited submission to special issue for New Talent: Americas) link
• S. Li, Y.-S. Chen, K. L. Mulfort. Structural modification in bimetallic Ru(III)-Co(II) metal-organic frameworks, CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 1005-1009. link
• A. Mukherjee, O. Kokhan, J. Huang, J. Niklas, L. X. Chen, D. M. Tiede, K. L. Mulfort. Detection of a charge-separated catalyst precursor state in a linked photosensitizer-catalyst assembly, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 21070-21076. link
• K. L. Mulfort, A. Mukherjee, O. Kokhan, P. Du, D. M. Tiede. Structure-function analyses of solar fuels catalysts using in situ X-ray scattering, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2215-2227. link