LESLIE VOGT - Yale Chemistry

LESLIE VOGT
225 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520 leslie.vogt@yale.edu office: (203) 495-9676
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
MS, Chemistry 2008
PhD, Chemistry expected 2011
Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA
BS, summa cum laude, Physical Chemistry 2005
Distinction in Chemistry, Distinction in Physics
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
Research
NSF Graduate Fellowship (Chemistry – theoretical) 2008
Fulbright Grant (Germany) 2005
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship 2004
Teaching
Harvard University Dudley Herschbach Teaching Award 2008
Harvard University Bok Center Distinction in Teaching 2008
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Harvard University 12/2006 – 6/2011
Molecular Interactions in Aggregates
Decoherence-Assisted Excitonic Energy Transfer
Scientific Computing: Graphics Cards, Distributed Computing
University of Augsburg 10/2005 – 08/2006
Automated Compound Classification for Urban Aerosol
Juniata College
Molecular Modeling of Cysteine Protease Inhibitors 08/2004 – 05/2005
Modeling Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography 06/2003 – 05/2004
Determining the Trapping Force of Laser Tweezers 08/2003 – 12/2003
Harvard University Research Experience for Undergraduates 06/2004 – 08/2004
Photophysical Properties of Fluorescent Dyes
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard University
Chemistry 60: Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Kinetics
Prof. Anne-Frances Miller (University of Kentucky) 2008
Prof. Roy Gordon 2007
Juniata College
Biochemistry lab 2004
Physical chemistry lab 2005
Group tutoring: organic chemistry 2004-2005
Individual tutoring: general chemistry, organic chemistry 2005

PUBLICATIONS
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(10) Thuo, M.M., Reus, W.F., Yoon, H.J., Simeone, F., Vogt, L., Kim, C., Schulz, M.D.,
Aspuru-Guzik, A., Whitesides, G.M., “Replacing –CH 2 CH 2 - with-CONH- does note
change rates of charge transport through Ag TS -SAM//Ga 2 O 3 /EGaIn junctions” (in
preparation).
(9) Ju, X.-H., Vogt, L., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Electronic pull and push effects on bond
dissociation enthalpies in triazoles and tetrazines”, (in preparation).
(8) Olivares-Amaya, R., Amador-Bedolla, C., Hachmann, J., Atahan-Evrenk, S., Sánchez-
Carrera, R.S., Vogt, L., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Accelerated computational discovery of highperformance
materials for organic photovoltaics by means of cheminformatics”,
submitted, 2011.
(7) Hachmann, J., Olivares-Amaya, R., Atahan-Evrenk, S., Amador-Bedolla, C., Sánchez-
Carrera, R., Gold-Parker, A., Vogt, L., Brockway, A.M., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “The Harvard
Clean Energy Project: Large-scale computational screening and design of organic
photovoltaics on the World Community Grid”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2011,
doi:10.1021/jz200866s.
(6) Perdomo, A., Vogt, L., Najmaie, A., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Engineering directed excitonic
energy transfer”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2010, 96, 093114.
(5) Olivares-Amaya, R.*, Watson, M.A.*, Edgar, R., Vogt, L., Shao, Y., Aspuru-Guzik, A.
“Accelerating correlated quantum chemistry calculations using graphical processing
units and a mixed-precision matrix multiplication library”, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2010,
6, 135-144.
(4) Eremin, K., Stenger, J., Huang, J.-F., Aspuru-Guzik, A., Betley, T., Vogt, L., Kassal, I.,
Speakman, S., Khandekar, N. “Examination of pigments on Thai manuscripts: The first
identification of copper citrate”, J. Raman Spectrosc., 2008, 39, 1057-1065.
(3) Vogt, L.*, Olivares-Amaya, R.*, Kermes, S., Shao, Y., Amador-Bedolla, C., Aspuru-
Guzik, A. “Accelerating resolution-of-the-identity second-order Møller-Plesset quantum
chemistry calculations with graphical processing units”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2008, 112, 2049-
2057.
(2) Dorman, F.L., Schettler, P.D., Vogt, L., Cochran, J.W. “Using computer modeling to
predict and optimize separations for comprehensive two-dimensional gas
chromatography”, J. Chromatogr. A, 2008, 1186, 196-201.
(1) Vogt, L., Gröger, T., Zimmermann, R. “Automated compound classification for ambient
aerosol sample separations using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography”,
J. Chromatogr. A, 2007, 1150, 2-12.
PRESENTATIONS
Vogt, L., Karp, E., Macbeath, G., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Thermodynamic Contributions to PDZ-
Peptide Binding: A Theoretical and Experimental Case Study”
- Seminar, ACS, Boston, MA, August 22-26, 2010
Vogt, L., Watson, M., Lin, E., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Electronic Structure Methods Applied to
Characterize Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics”
- Poster, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Berkeley, CA, May 24-29, 2010

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Vogt, L., Peromo, A., Najmaie, A., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Engineering Directed Excitonic Energy
Transfer”
- Poster, Coherent Quantum Dynamics, Dublin, Ireland, May 9-15, 2010
Rebentrost, P., Vogt, L., Perdomo, A., Tempel, D., Yuen, J., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Quantum
Coherence in Photosynthetic Complexes: Methods, Applications, and Artifical Analogues”
- Seminar (shared), Coherent Quantum Dynamics, Dublin, Ireland, May 9-15, 2010
Vogt, L., Olivares-Amaya, R., Sánchez-Carrera, R., Atahan, S., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Finding
Organic Semiconductor and Photovoltaic Materials Using Distributed Computing”
- Seminar, RIKEN-Lund-Harvard Symposium, Wako, Japan, November 16-17, 2009
Vogt, L., Olivares-Amaya, R., Watson, M., Edgar, R., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Scientific
Computing Using Graphics Processing Units: A Brief Introduction to Libraries”
- Guest Lecture, CS 264, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, September 21, 2009
- Lecture & Lab, CNS GPU Workshop, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, August 12-14, 2009
Vogt, L., Perdomo, A., Saikin, S., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Engineering Efficient Energy Transfer in
Artificial Arrays”
- Seminar, APS, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009
Vogt, L., Olivares-Amaya, R., Aspuru-Guzik, A. “Tarjetas de Video para los Cálculos de
Química Cuántica (Graphics Cards for Quantum Chemistry Calculations)”
- Keynote Presentation, CONSOL 2008, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2008
Vogt, L., Gröger, T., Zimmermann, R. “Automated Compound Classification for Aerosol Sample
Separations Using Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography”
- Keynote Lecture, 29 th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography, Riva
del Garda, Italy, May 2006
Vogt, L., Wolbach, J. “Investigating Targets of Anti-bacterial Cysteine Protease Inhibitors”
- Poster, Computational Division, National ACS Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2005
Vogt, L., Dorman, F., Schettler, P., Cochran, J. “Using Computer Modeling to Predict and
Optimize Separations for Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography”
- Invited Keynote Lecture, 2 nd International Symposium on Comprehensive Two-
Dimensional Gas Chromatography, Atlanta, GA, August 2004
- Keynote Lecture, 27 th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography, Riva
del Garda, Italy, June 2004
- Invited Seminar, EnviroAnalysis 2004, Toronto, Canada, May 2004
- Poster, Analytical Division, National ACS Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2004
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Physical Society, American Chemical Society
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student and Postdoc Council (Harvard Chemistry)
Chair: 09/2007 – 02/2009
Fall 2007 – present
PA State Science Olympiad – Chemistry Test Supervisor 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Wrote, proctored, and graded the chemistry exam
National Science Olympiad Chemistry Test Supervisor 2004
Proctored and graded the chemistry exam, assisted with event organization