Celebrating African American Chemists: Davita L. Watkins
February is Black History Month in the United States. This year, ACS Axial is looking forward and highlighting noteworthy African American chemists working today, engaging them in conversation about their life and work.
Davita L. Watkins is an Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Mississippi.
Can you describe the current focus of your work?
I’m a synthetic organic chemist. I usually tell people that I’m an organic chemist with a little bit of an edge to her, because the research that we do is at the interface of physical organic chemistry, which is a domain of organic chemistry and more materials science and some polymer chemistry, application-wise.