Dr. Scott Yockel

University of North Texas

Center for Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM)

Department of Chemistry

Box 305070

Denton, TX 76148-5070

 

Office: CHEM 158

Phone: 940-369-8001

yockel@unt.edu

 

About Me

Postdoctoral Research, September 2006-present, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Advisor: Paul S. Bagus

 

Ph.D. Chemistry, August 2006, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Dissertation: “The evaluation, development, and application of the correlation consistent basis sets”

Advisor: Angela K. Wilson

 

B.S. Chemistry, May 2000, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma

Education

NSF Panelist Invitation for Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association Annual Meeting, 2006

NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Graduate Fellowship, 2005

ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry, Chemical Computing Group (CCG) Excellence Award, 2005

B. Craig Raupe Memorial Scholarship, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, 2001, 2005

James J. and Ruth I. Spurlock Scholarship Award, 2006

Honors and Awards

Computer system administration, with six years experience (1) building complete computing systems/clusters from ground up (installing hardware, operating systems, RAID devices, compilers, batch queuing systems, compiling scientific software codes) for various UNIX (Irix, Solaris, HP-UX) and Linux (OS X, Enterprise, Fedora, Debian) based systems, (2) configuring parallel computing interfaces: MPI, GA, GM (Myrinet) and network file systems (3) managing user accounts, queuing systems, and security/firewall.

 

Proficient with python, awk, and other scripting languages/tools and some experience with Fortran and C. 

 

Extensive experience with software codes MOLPRO, Gaussian, Alchemy, Molden and proficient with GAMESS, Dirac, Turbomole, Spartan.

Skills

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Postdoctoral Research Associate with Paul S. Bagus. September 2006-present

Research Assistant for Professor Angela K. Wilson. Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. 2003-2006

Teaching Assistant for Professor Angela K. Wilson. Computational Chemistry. 2003-2004

Teaching Assistant for Professor Paul Jones. Organic Chemistry. 2002-2003

Teaching Assistant for Professor Jim Marshall. General Chemistry. 2001-2002

 

Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea

Research Assistant for Professor Kwang S. Kim at Center for Superfunctional Materials. 2005

 

Southwell Laboratory, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Chemical Analyst, Organic Chemistry Department, 2000-2001

Employment

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund - Summer School: "Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and the Dynamics of Complex Systems." St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2004

 

 

Professional Training

Member of the American Chemical Society, 2002-present

Professional Societies