Annette Raigoza

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
July 2007 – December 2011

• Developed methodology for controlling ordering and aggregation of molecules on a gold surface.
• Characterized multicomponent self-assembled monolayers on the gold surface using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).
• Mentored four undergraduate and five high school research students on their own research projects.

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
January 2004 – December 2005

• Fabricated, characterized, and optimized Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) thin film devices for use as energetically tunable cold-cathode electron sources.

Research Assistant
UTPB, Odessa, TX
January 2002 – August 2003

• Modeled plant-scale chemical processes to perform cost comparisons between known chemical methods with engineering software, SuperPro Designer.
• Used various solvents systems and techniques to find most efficient method of recovering clean oil from waste oil.

Teaching Experience

Notre Dame extended Research Community
NDeRC) Fellow
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
July 2007 – June 2009

• Mentored three high school students and a high school teacher on independent projects using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).
• Presented STM research to students in local high schools.

Instructor
St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, TX
July 2006 – May 2007

• Developed chemistry courses and prepared labs for classes containing 15 – 25 students.
• Introduction to Chemistry I – CHEM 1405: Fall 2006, Spring 2007
• Introduction to Chemistry II – CHEM 1407: Summer 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007
• General Chemistry II – CHEM 1412: Spring 2007

Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
August 2003 – May 2004

• Supervised 25 students, demonstrated experiments and reinforced classroom teaching,and graded weekly lab reports.
• General Chemistry I lab: Fall 2003
• General Chemistry II lab: Spring 2004

Supplemental Instruction Leader
UTPB, Odessa, TX
August 2000 – December 2001

• Prepared and held review sessions for upcoming tests and quizzes and held tutoring sessions 2-3 times a week with up to 15 students per session.
• General Chemistry I – CHEM 1406: Fall 2000, Fall 2001
• General Chemistry II – CHEM 1407: Spring 2001

Jobbins, M.M.; Raigoza, A.F.; Kandel, S.A., Circuit design for DC and AC electrochemical etching of scanning probe microscopy tips, submitted.

Raigoza, A.F.; Kolettis, G.; Brandt, S.; Caponigri-Guerra, G.; Agostino, C.J.; Kandel, S.A., Coadsorption of octanethiol and dialkyldithiocarbamate on gold, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, accepted.

Jobbins, M.; Raigoza, A.F.; Kandel S.A., Adatoms at the sulfur-gold interface in 1-adamantanethiolate monolayers, studied using reaction with hydrogen atoms and scanning tunneling microscopy, accepted.

Raigoza, A.F.; Villalba, D.A.; Kautz, N.A.; Kandel S.A., Structure and self-assembly of sequentially adsorbed coronene/octanethiol monolayers, Surface Science (2010), 19-20, 1584-1590.

Dixit, A.; Raigoza, A.; Engstrom, T.; Lapicki, A.; Akutsu, K.; Jacobs, D.C., A solid-state approach to generating hot electrons, AIAA paper, 2005), 2005-207: 1-6.

Robinson, J.M; Burgess, C.E.; Bentley, M.A.; Brasher, C.D.; Horne, B.O.; Lillard, D.M.; Macias, J.M.; Maruffo, L.D.; Mandal, H.D.; Mills, S.C.; O’Hara, K.D.; Pon, J.T.; Raigoza, A.F.; Sanchez, E.H.; Villarreal, J.S.; Xiang, Q., Polyols: An alternative sugar platform for conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals, Chapter in ACS Symposium Series: Feedstocks for the Future: Renewables for the Production of Chemicals and Materials,  (2005).

Robinson, J.M.; Burgess, C.E.; Bentley, M.A.; Brasher, C.D.; Horne, B.O.; Lillard, D.M.; Macias, J.M.; Mandal, H.D.; Mills, S.C.; O’Hara, K.D.; Pon, J.T.; Raigoza, A.F.; Sanchez, E.H.; Villarreal, J.S., The use of catalytic hydrogenation to intercept carbohydrates in a dilute acid hydrolysis of biomass to effect a clean separation from lignin, Biomass and Bioenergy (2004), 26(5), 473-483.