Jaclyn A. Rebstock, a postdoctoral scholar in the group of Professor Munira Khalil, was awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation. The fellowship supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars in fundamental chemistry and the development and construction of chemical instrumentation.
The award provides two years of funding, along with an additional $200,000 budget to support instrumentation costs.
Rebstock earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the Ohio State University, where she specialized in vibrational nonlinear spectroscopy to study electrochemical reactions on metal surfaces in real time. In the Khalil group, she is advancing this work by applying ultrafast multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy to catalytic systems.
With the fellowship, Rebstock will build a new vibrational spectroscopy instrument designed to observe chemical reactions as they happen at surfaces. The instrument will allow researchers to see how molecules move and interact in real time, offering insight into surface chemistry that could help improve technologies such as batteries and clean fuels.
This fellowship provides Rebstock with a rare opportunity to combine instrument development with fundamental chemistry questions. “I’m excited to pursue both and to explore new ways of probing the chemistry that happens at interfaces.” Rebstock said.
Featured in UW Notebook on June 10, 2026, by UW News.