SERMACS / 2025A PERSONAL MILESTONE
My first conference talk. A whole new perspective.
A polymer session, a room full of fresh ideas, and the community that makes science worth sharing.
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Small particles.
Big questions.
I’m Dillon Baker. Exploring computational chemistry,
learning through code, and sharing the discoveries
that make a PhD a journey.
CHEMISTRY, BEYOND THE VISIBLE.An artistic exploration of the molecular world
CHEMISTRY × CODE × CURIOSITYSCROLL TO EXPLORE ↓
01 / THE JOURNALNotes from the
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SERMACS / 2025Quantum chemistry
A first look into the quantum world
A week of molecular models, electronic-structure calculations, and new ways of thinking.
↗Code & teaching
Where code meets cancer biology
Helping high school students turn Python, real biological data, and curiosity into research.
↗More from the notebook
IDEAS. EXPERIMENTS. EXPERIENCES.02 / BEHIND THE NOTEBOOKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS
DILLON BAKER ↗Dillon Thomas Anderson Baker
I’m a Chemistry PhD student at the University of Memphis, working in Dr. Yongmei Wang’s research group. My interests connect computational and physical chemistry, coding, and teaching.
I earned my BS in Chemistry and Mathematics in May 2025. This blog began as a place to document learning to code. Now, it’s a time capsule of the transition from undergraduate to graduate life—the research, the people, and everything I learn along the way.
