Jillian Lee Dempsey

Jillian Lee Dempsey is an American inorganic chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, her work focuses on proton-coupled electron transfer, charge transfer events, and quantum dots. She is the recipient of numerous awards for rising stars of chemistry, including most recently a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a 2016 Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). Prior to working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dempsey was a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Daniel R. Gamelin at the University of Washington.

• 2016 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
• 2016 - Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)
• 2015 - Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
• 2015 - NSF CAREER Award

• "2015 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Eighteen Researchers". 
• "CAREER: Mechanistic Investigations of Excited-State Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions".