Francisco Escobedo

Science education professional with proven track record of fostering engaging and inclusive learning environment. Successfully designed and delivered curricula that enhance students' comprehension of complex scientific concepts. Known for strong teamwork and adaptability, ensuring effective collaboration with colleagues and responsiveness to changing educational needs.

• Curriculum Development - Tailored educational curriculum to students with range of learning styles, disabilities, strengths and weaknesses. Developed innovative semester lesson plans and practical application exercises for classroom.

• Lanthanide cluster compounds and their potential as SMM: Synthesis, structure and magnetic properties, 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 2014
• 67th SACNAS National Conference, SACNAS National Conference, San Jose, CA, 2011
• Towards a Series of Lanthanide-Bromide-Based Single Chain Magnets, Southwest Regional ACS Meeting, Austin, TX, 2011

Subject Matter Expertise

• SACNAS travel scholarship, 2011
• Eastman Chemical Company, 2009

• Synthesis and characterization of a new cubic structure in the reduced zirconium iodide chemistry, Escobedo-Cruz, F.V.; Hughbanks, T. R., Inor. Chim. Acta., 2018, 469, 545-549, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2017.07.052
• New coordination networks containing trinuclear lanthanide complexes and hexacyanometallates., Escobedo-Cruz, F.V.; Hughbanks, T. R., Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 6831-6841, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7DT02541F
• Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, Escobedo-Cruz, F.V.; Dempsey, S.; Hughbanks, T., 2018, https://dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1phf6t
• Syntheses, structures, and second-harmonic generating properties in new quaternary tellurites: A2TeW3O12 (A=K, Rb, or Cs)., Goodey, J.; Ok, K.M.; Broussard, J.; Hofmann, C.; Escobedo, F.V.; Halasyamani, P.S., J. Solid State Chem., 2003, 175, 1, 3-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-4596(03)00079-3

• Research Assistant, Prof. Hughbanks, 09/08 - 08/16, Synthesized and grew crystals by solid-state methods of a new reduced zirconium-iodide cluster and of lanthanide-bromide clusters using transition metals and carbon as interstitials, Synthesized and grew crystals by slow diffusion techniques of four families of lanthanide-based coordination networks, Elucidated the structures of a new reduced zirconium-iodide cluster, a lanthanide-bromide family encapsulating carbon and four different families of lanthanide-based coordination networks, Measured the magnetic properties of selected trinuclear lanthanide complexes networks and the compounds Ln6Br10Co (Ln = Gd, Tb and Er) and Tb6Br10Ni, Synthesized and characterized by 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR the ligand TDCI (TDCI = 1,3,5-Triamino-l,3,5-trideoxy-cis-inositol) and its intermediates, Performed electronic calculations using DMol3 of the program Material Studio to calculate the properties of selected clusters
• Research Experience for Undergraduates, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Summer 2002, Grew crystals of quaternary tellurites, A2TeW3O12 (A = K, Cs, Rb), using hydrothermal synthesis, Synthesized quaternary tellurites using solid-state chemistry for second-order non-linear optical measurements, Studied the thermal behavior of the quaternary tellurites using TGA techniques