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Dr. Michael Isaac Jacobs

  • Assistant Professor - Chemistry and Biochemistry

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Chemistry

Univ of California, Berkeley, 2019

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Chemistry and Biochemistry

Oberlin College, 2014

  • Jacobs, Michael Isaac. Elucidating the Origins of Accelerated Biochemistry in Levitated Microdroplets, Welch Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $300000. (Funded: June 1, 2025 - Present). Grant.
  • Jacobs, Michael Isaac (Principal), Schilter, David (Co-Principal), Davis, Ryan D (Co-Principal), Watt, John (Co-Principal). Characterizing interfacial and bulk transport phenomena in viscous microdroplets, US Department of Energy, Federal, $399883. (Funded: January 15, 2025 - Present). Grant.
  • Jacobs, Michael Isaac. MPS-LEAPS: Quantifying interfacial molecular transport and pH in a single electrospray droplet., National Science Foundation, Federal, $249914. (Funded: September 1, 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Rodríguez López, Joaquín (Principal), Chen, Qian (Co-Principal), Kenis, Paul (Co-Principal), Landes, Christy (Co-Principal), Moore, Jeffrey S. (Co-Principal), Olshansky, Lisa (Co-Principal), Schroeder, Charles (Co-Principal), Yang, Hong (Co-Principal), Flaherty, David W (Co-Principal), Mendoza Cortés, José L (Co-Principal), Ramos Sánchez, Víctor (Co-Principal), Surendran Assary, Rajeev (Co-Principal), Jacobs, Michael Isaac (Co-Principal). Harnessing Electrostatics for the Conversion of Organics, Water and Air: Driving Redox on Particulate Liquids Earthshot (DROPLETS), U.S. Department of Energy, Federal, $4000000. (Funded: February 1, 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Jacobs, Michael Isaac. Measuring molecular transport to the surfaces of highly charged microdroplets, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: January 17, 2023 - May 31, 2024). Grant.
  • Jacobs, M. I., Aleman, E. T., & Zepeda, R. G. (2025). Confocal Fluorescence Imaging of Levitated Microdroplets. Aerosol Science and Technology, 59(7), 833–844.
  • Ahmed, F., & Jacobs, M. I. (2025). Using induced charge detection to quantify the net charge of microdroplets within a quadrupole electrodynamic trap. Review of Scientific Instruments, 96, 125206.
  • Jacobs, M. I., Johnston, M., & Mahmud, S. (2024). Exploring how the Surface-Area-to-Volume Ratio Influences the Partitioning of Surfactants to the Air-Water Interface in Levitated Microdroplets. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 128(46), 9986–9997.
  • Tu, M. Q., Nguyen, H. V., Foley, E., Jacobs, M. I., & Schroeder, C. M. (2023). 3D manipulation and dynamics of soft materials in 3D flows. Journal of Rheology, 67, 877–890. https://doi.org/10.1122/8.0000600
  • Jacobs, M. I., Bansal, P., Shukla, D., & Schroeder, C. M. (2022). Understanding Supramolecular Assembly of Supercharged Proteins. ACS Central Science, 8(9), 1350–1361.
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  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award in Teaching (assistant professors). 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Benjamin Boussert Memorial Award, University of California - Berkeley. 2019
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    Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

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    Journal of Physical Chemistry A

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    ACS Petroleum Research Fund

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    Environmental Science and Technology

  5. Member

    Core Research Operations Advisory committee

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    ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

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