Honors & Awards


  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside (04/2026 - 09/2026)
  • Richard R. Schrock Graduate Student Award, University of California, Riverside (2025)
  • ORISE Participant within the DOE / SCGSR (NLR), University of California, Riverside (06/2025 - 09/2025)
  • Science of Sustainability Fellowship, University of California, Riverside (2022)
  • Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, University of California, Riverside (2020)

Professional Education


  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of California Riverside (2026)
  • Bachelor of Science, California State University, Chico (2020)
  • Master of Science, University of California Riverside (2022)
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Riverside (2026)

Stanford Advisors


All Publications


  • Combustion Resistant Borohydrides and Their Chemical Interactions with Li-Metal Surfaces: An Experimental and Theoretical Study ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE Tomich, A. W., Proctor, S., Yang, M., Chen, J., Zhao, Y., Chen, E., Das, T., Merinov, B. V., Goddard, W. A., Guo, J., Lavallo, V. 2025; 11 (5): 734-741
  • Beyond the Hawthorne Reaction: Li<SUP>+</SUP> Induced Thermal Dehydrocoupling of <i>closo</i>-10-vertex Carborane Anions INORGANIC CHEMISTRY Proctor, S., Farias, P., Carta, V., Lavallo, V. 2024; 64 (1): 757-760
  • Searching for the Truth: Elemental Analysis-A Powerful but Often Poorly Executed Technique ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE Proctor, S., Lovera, S., Tomich, A., Lavallo, V. 2022; 8 (7): 874-876