Academic Career Highlights

Talks & Oral Presentations

[1] April 2025: Bavisotto R. Using Surface Organic Modifiers to Control Chemical Selectivity. Presented to the Dept of Chemistry at the National Institute of Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan.

[2] March 2025: Bavisotto R. Frontiers in Spectroscopy: Novel Techniques for Modern Challenges. Presented to the Dept of Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society.

[3] October 2022: Bavisotto R. Controlling Chemical Selectivity Through Lateral Interactions. Presented remotely to the department of chemistry at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

[4] April 2019: Bavisotto R. Recent Advances of Water – Gas Shift Catalysis using Ultra-High Vacuum Chemical Vapor Deposition. Presented to department of chemistry at UW-Milwaukee.

Poster Presentations

[1] Fall 2024: Bavisotto R., Tysoe W.T. – Temperature-Programmed Spectroscopy: A Novel Tool for Surface Kinetic and Mechanistic studies. Poster presented Milwaukee Section ACS meeting at Fall 2024 - M.S.O.E

[2] Fall 2023: Bavisotto R., Tysoe W.T. – Using Temperature-Programmed Spectroscopy to study surface kinetics: A Novel Method. Poster presented at MACC Fall 2023 – UW-Milwaukee

[3] Spring 2023: Bavisotto R., Tysoe W.T. – Utilizing Parallel Computing to Improve Computational Precision: Computational Drug Discovery for Covid-19 Antivirals. Poster presented at MIDD Spring 2023 – UW-Milwaukee

[4] Spring 2023: Bavisotto R., Tysoe W.T. – Pressure-Dependent Mechanisms for the Hydrogenation of Acetophenone on Pd(111): Role of Dimer Formation. Poster presented at ACS Spring 2023 - Indianapolis

[5] Spring 2023: Bavisotto R.,  Tysoe W.T. – Using Lateral Interactions to Control Selectivity of Heterogenous Catalytic Reactions. Poster presented at UW-Milwaukee Annual Chemistry and Biochemistry Research Symposium

[6] Fall 2021: Bavisotto R., Tysoe W.T. – Inducing High-Energy-Barrier Tribochemical Reaction Pathways. Poster presented at ACS Milwaukee Section Symposium

[7] Fall 2021: Bavisotto R., Rana R., Tysoe W.T. – Inducing High-Energy-Barrier Tribochemical Reaction Pathways, Acetic Acid Decomposition on Copper. Poster presented virtually via recorded video at AVS-Prairie Chapter Symposium

[8] Spring 2021: Bavisotto R., Tysoe W.T. – Effects of Terminus on Reactions of Midchain Length Carboxylic Acids on Copper. Poster presented virtually via recorded video at UW-Milwaukee Annual Chemistry and Biochemistry Research Symposium

[9] Fall 2019: Bavisotto R., Tysoe W.T. - Using reflection adsorption infrared spectroscopy to investigate the surface chemistry of furfural on Pd(111). Poster presented at AVS Prairie Chapter Symposium – University of Illinois

[10] Spring 2019: Bavisotto R. Using reflection adsorption infrared spectroscopy to investigate the adsorption of furfural on Pd(111). Poster presented at UW-Milwaukee Annual Chemistry and Biochemistry Research Symposium

[11] Spring 2017: Bavisotto R., Maraccini K., Mundorf R. Arecibo Remote Command Center. Poster presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) – Memphis

[12] Spring 2016: Bavisotto R., Maraccini K., Murchison Widefield Array Expansion. Poster presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) –Asheville

[13] Spring 2016: Bavisotto R., Maraccini K., Spiwak R. Arecibo Remote Command Center. Poster presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) –Asheville

[14] Spring 2016: Bavisotto R. Local Sidereal Time Clock Project. Poster presented at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Research Symposium