Undergraduate Researcher Lily is a fifth year chemistry and mathematics major with a soil science minor from Cumming, Georgia. She is studying non-covalent interactions involving aromatic rings with a current focus on stacking of drug-like heterocycles with His side chains. She spent last summer working in the Corminboeuf Group at EPFL. She enjoys hiking and going to concerts. When she is not working, she can be found eating chicken tenders and arguing with her cat, Mars. Education: B. S. in Chemistry (May 2026) B. S. in Mathematics (expected May 2027) Selected Publications Selected Publications: L. C. Barnett, K. U. Do, and S. E. Wheeler, “Stacking Interactions of Druglike Heterocycles with Histidine” (submitted). L. C. Barnett, S. Chehade, S. Wang, Z. Wang, and E. Wong, “Lie-Trotter Means and Their Error Estimates” (in preparation). Posters and Presentations: “Variability of Soil Metal Oxides Across Ecosystems”, Southeastern Undergraduate Research Conference, Kennesaw, Georgia (February 1, 2025). “Binding of Polyfluorinated ‘Forever Chemicals’ by Heterocyclic Aromatics”, CURO Research Symposium, Athens, Georgia (April 8, 2025). “Hamiltonian Simulation and Error Estimation”, UGA Directed Reading Program Presentation, Athens, Georgia (November 19, 2025). “Stacking Interactions of Druglike Heterocycles with Histidine”, CURO Research Symposium, Athens, Georgia (April 20, 2026). “Deutsch’s Algorithm – The Quantum Fruit Checker”, UGA Directed Reading Program Presentation, Athens, Georgia (April 23, 2026).
