Katie R. Mitchell-Koch is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manitoba and a computational chemist whose research spans protein structure and dynamics, enzymatic mechanisms, and organometallic catalysis.
She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Kansas, conducting undergraduate research with Professors Ward Thompson and Andy Borovik, and completed her M.S. at the University of Michigan. Returning to KU, she earned her Ph.D. in 2008 under the mentorship of Professor Thompson, receiving the Higuchi Doctoral Progress Award for outstanding doctoral research.
Mitchell-Koch began her independent career as a lecturer at Emporia State University in 2008 before joining Wichita State University as an Assistant Professor in 2012. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2019, earning recognition for excellence in research during her time there. In 2023, she moved to the University of Manitoba, where her group applies theoretical and computational methods to investigate biomolecular solvation, fluorine chemical shifts, and solvent effects in catalysis, with collaborations that extend into drug design, green chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry.
