Gabe Gomes

He earned his Ph.D. in Fall 2018 from Florida State University, under the guidance of Professor Igor V. Alabugin, where he also was awarded the LASER Fellowship in 2014 and the 2016-2017 IBM Ph.D Scholarship. At FSU, Gabe's research was centered on the relationship between molecular structure and reactivity, focusing on the development and applications of stereoelectronic effects.

In 2019, Gabe joined the University of Toronto as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Matter Lab, led by Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik. In 2020, Gabe was awarded the prestigious NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship with the project "Designing Catalysts with Artificial Intelligence," and has been featured on the "Next Great Impossible" series by Merck/Milipore-Sigma.

Gabe has been named to Chemical & Engineering News' "Talented 12" list of rising stars in chemistry. Presented by Thermo Fisher Scientific, the "Talented 12" highlights early-career researchers in the chemical sciences who are fearlessly tackling difficult global problems.

In 2024, he was selected as a Scialog Fellow for Automating Chemical Laboratories, a program organized by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.