At this week's seminar, she will be presenting “Designing a catalytic system to convert methane into heavier alkanes.” Sharon received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Michigan. She has most recently been the Cram Teacher-Scholar at UCLA where she also worked on organic and organometallic computational research in the lab of Ken Houk. Sharon’s research interests are both experimental and computational, and target the development of catalytic systems for transforming small molecules into value-added compounds such as sequence-controlled polymers and fuels.