RODRIGO NORIEGA portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Professional Service

  • American Chemiscal Society PHYS division. Role: Organizer. Member of the ACS PHYS ad hoc 2020 webinar committee. 09/2020 - present
  • Materials Research Society. • Lead organizer for a symposium titled “Excitons, electrons, and ions in organic materials” held at the Materials Research Society Fall 2018 Meeting in Boston. 11/2017 - 11/2018

Internal Service

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. 07/01/2020 - present. Department service.
  • Graduate Recruiting Committee. Chair, 07/01/2019 - present. Department service.
  • Chemistry Seminar Committee . Physical division representative and Student liaison, 07/01/2019 - present. Department service.
  • Graduate Recruiting Committee. 07/01/2018 - 06/30/2019. Department service.
  • Graduate Admissions Committee . Physical division representative, 07/01/2016 - 06/30/2018. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • Early Career teaching Award. University of Utah, 02/2022
  • Leadership in Ethics Education Award . Daniels Fund , 01/2019

In the Media

  • Guest at the Utah Public Radio UnDisciplined Science Show Joint interview with Dr. Kimberly Hanson (Section head for Clinical Microbiology at the U of Utah and ARUP) and Dr. Matthew H. Samore (chair of Epidemiology Dept. at the U. of Utah and director of IDEAS center at the SLC Veterans Affairs) regarding our recent article “Efficient and effective single-step screening of individual samples for SARS-CoV-2 RNA using multi-dimensional pooling and Bayesian inference”. 08/2021.
  • Guest at the Utah Public Radio UnDisciplined Science News Roundup. 10/2020.
  • Guest at the Utah Public Radio UnDisciplined Science News Roundup. 01/2020.
  • Guest for Utah Public Radio show - Undisciplined Science News Roundup. 09/2019. https://www.upr.org/post/undisciplined-science-new...