Rate My Professor Sarah Stoll

Sarah Stoll is Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Georgetown University, where she has served since 2002, advancing from Assistant Professor (2002-2007) to Associate Professor (2007-2019) and Full Professor (2019-present). She earned a B.A. cum laude from Smith College in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. Her postdoctoral training included fellowships at Harvard University (1995) and Rice University (1996), and a Visiting Scientist position at Oxford University (1997). Prior to Georgetown, she was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Oberlin College (1996-2001), earning promotion with tenure in 2001, and held a Fulbright Fellowship at Helsinki University of Technology in 2002.

Stoll's research centers on solid-state inorganic chemistry, materials science, and nanoparticle synthesis, with a particular emphasis on magnetic nanoparticles. These materials are explored for applications in data storage, biological separations, MRI contrast agents, and investigations into nanoscale magnetism. Her laboratory also develops systems exhibiting novel magneto-optical, luminescent, and non-linear optical properties. She has co-directed the Georgetown Research Experience for Undergraduates program since 2006 and the Science in the Public Interest program since 2009 (on and off). Additionally, she served as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation (2015-2016) and has taught Environmental Chemistry for over 20 years. Notable awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2005) and the Sonneborn Chair. Key publications encompass “Giant Band Splittings in EuS and EuSe Magnetic Semiconductor Nanocrystals” (Chemical Communications, 2020), “Single-Source Precursors for Lanthanide Diselenide Nanosheets” (Chemistry of Materials, 2019), “Paramagnetic Clusters of Mn3(O2CCH3)6(Bpy)2 in Polyacrylamide Nanobeads as a New Design Strategy for T1-T2 Multi-Modal Contrast Agent” (ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019), “Valence and Magnetic Investigations of Alkali Metal-Doped Europium Sulfide” (Chemistry of Materials, 2012), and “Gadolinium Doped Europium Sulfide” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010).