Education 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, The George Washington University, DC (2022)
• B.S. in Chemistry, Arcadia University, PA (2017) 

 

Awards and Honors 

• DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship (2021)
• Presidential Merit Fellowship - GW (2017-2022)
• Bourdon F. Scribner Graduate Endowment Scholarship - GW (2018)
• American Institute of Chemists 2017 Student Award - AU (2017) 
• Gates-Alyea-Breyer Award in Chemistry - AU (2016) 

 

Publications

• Byrne, N.M., Schofield, M.H., Cahill, C.L.* ​“A novel symmetric pyrazine (pyz)-bridged uranyl dimer [UO₂Cl₃(H₂O)(Pyz)_0.5]₂²⁻: synthesis, structure and computational analysis” Dalton Trans., 2022. DOI: 10.1039/D2DT01486F
• Byrne, N. M., Schofield, M. H., Nicholas, A. D., and Cahill, C. L.* ​“Bimetallic uranyl/cobalt (II) isothiocyanates: structure, property, and spectroscopic analysis of homo- and heterometallic phases,” Dalton Trans., 2021 DOI:10.1021/D1DT01464A
• Gomez, G. E.; Ridenour, J. A..; Byrne, N. M., Shevchenko, A. P., and Cahill, C. L.^* ​“Novel Heterometallic Uranyl-Transition Metal Materials. Structure, Topology, and Solid State Photoluminescence Properties,” Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 11, 7243 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00255
• Kozma, K., Surta, T. W., Molina, P. I., Lyubinetsky, L., Stoxen, W., Byrne, N. M., Dolgos, M., Nyman, M.^* ​“Probing the local structure of crystalline NaBiO₃^.XH₂O and its acidified derivatives,” Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2018, 263, 216 DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2018.04.012