Matthew Lueckheide
Biography
Dr. Matt Lueckheide grew up on Long Island along the border of Queens and Nassau County. The product of a devoted single mother, he attended public school at Valley Stream North High School where his passion for chemistry, teaching and performing developed. Matt pursued a B.A. in Chemistry at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, where he performed research in a myriad of areas, including computational atmospheric chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry and organocatalysis. As an active community member, Matt’s passion for tutoring chemistry to his peers, giving prospective students tours of Skidmore’s science facilities, and fundraising for both the College and the recently-completed Center for Integrated Sciences led to him being awarded the Charlotte W. Fahey Prize in Chemistry. On the side, Matt played in Skidmore’s Classical Guitar Ensemble and performed improvisational comedy.
Matt then moved to Providence, RI to pursue his Ph.D in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry at Brown University under the tutelage of Dr. Jerome Robinson, which he received in 2022. His doctoral work primarily involved kinetic and mechanistic studies of rare-earth metal-assisted reduction of dioxygen to selectively produce novel metal peroxides or hydrogen peroxide. He proudly served for four years on the Graduate Student Leadership Committee that works to foster community amongst graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty. During his time at Brown, Matt was awarded the W.T. King Prize for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Elaine B. Chase Award for Service and Leadership, and a 2022 Deans’ Faculty Fellowship. Following the completion of his doctorate, he remained at Brown as a faculty member under the auspices of the Deans’ Faculty Fellowship, and now serves as a Visiting Lecturer. Brown has given Matt a home to combine his passion for comedy and chemistry to engage his students in their coursework, hoping to inspire the next generation of chemists, doctors and researchers.
Outside of work, Matt is an impassioned chef, mixologist, golfer and cat dad to a rambunctious, affectionate calico, Callisto.
Publications
Huang, L.; Bertram, L.; Ma, L.; Goff, N.; Crane, S.W.; Odate, A.; Northey, T.; Carrascosa, A.M.; Simmermacher, M.; Muvva, S.B.; Geiser, J.D.; Lueckheide, M.J.; Phelps, Z.; Liang, M.; Cheng, X.; Forbes, R.; Robinson, J.S.; Hayes, M.J.; Allum, F.; Green, A.E.; Lopata, K.; Rudenko, A.; Wolf, T.J.A.; Centurion, M.; Rolles, D.; Minitti, M.P.; Kirrander, A.; Weber, P.M. The Ring-Closing Reaction of Cyclopentadiene Probed with Ultrafast X-ray Scattering. J. Phys. Chem. A., 2024, in press. (Featured as the Cover Article)
Lueckheide, M.J.; Ertem, M.Z.; Michon, M.A.; Chi.; Robinson, J.R. Peroxide-Selective Reduction of O 2 at Redox-inactive Rare-Earth(III) Triflates Generate an Ambiphilic Peroxide. J.Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 17295-17306. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c08140.
Ostaszewski, C.J.; Stuart, N.M.; Lesko, D.M.B.; Kim, D.; Lueckheide, M.J.; Navea, J.G. Effects of Coadsorbed Water on the Heterogeneous Photochemistry of Nitrates Adsorbed on TiO 2 . J. Phys. Chem. A., 122, 2018, 6360-6371. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b04979 (Featured as a
Supplementary Cover Article).
Teaching
Courses
CHEM0100: Introductory Chemistry
CHEM0330L - Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure Laboratory
CHEM0330C: Equilibrium, Rate and Structure Conferences
CHEM0350 – Organic Chemistry I
CHEM0350L – Organic Chemistry I Laboratory
CHEM0500 – Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM0600 – Preparative Chemistry Lab
CHEM1560N/2310 – Organometallic Chemistry