Professional Experience
- University of Rochester
Associate Professor (2005-)
Assistant Professor (2000-2005)
- University of Minnesota
National Institutes of
Health
Postdoctoral Fellow (1997-2000)
Project Title: Synthesis of Hindered Copper/Oxygen and Copper Thiolate
Complexes
Advisor: Prof.
William
B. Tolman
Education
- University of California,
Berkeley
Ph.D. in Chemistry,
September
1997
Thesis Title: Studies of Cyclopentadienylnickel Amido Complexes
Thesis Advisors: Professors
Robert G. Bergman and
Richard A. Andersen
- Princeton University
A.B. magna cum laude
in
Chemistry, June 1993
Awards and Funding
- PRF-AC grant, 2006-2008
- co-PI, GAANN grant, 2006-
- NIH
R01 grant, 2004-2009
- Sloan
Research Fellowship, 2003-2005
- NSF
CAREER Award, 2002-2007
- NIH Postdoctoral
Fellowship,
University of Minnesota, 1997-1999
- Phi Beta Kappa,
Princeton
University, 1993
- American
Institute
of Chemists Student Awardee, 1993
Service
- Co-organizer of Symposium
"The New Faces of Biomimetic Coordination Chemistry," Fall 2009
National ACS Meeeting (Washington, DC)
- Editorial Board of Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2008-.
- Chair of Harrison Howe Award Committee, Rochester Section of the ACS (2007- )
- Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Rochester, 2005-2008
- Co-organizer of Symposium
"β-diketiminates: A Renaissance of Reaction Chemistries," Fall 2005
National ACS Meeeting (Washington, DC)
- Ad Hoc Reviewer for NIH study sections,
October 2005, June 2007
- Discussion leader at Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar in Bioinorganic Chemistry (January 2005)
- Reviewer
of papers for J. Am. Chem. Soc., Inorg. Chem., Inorg.
Synth.
Commun., Chem. Commun., Chem. Rev., Dalton, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Science, J. Organomet. Chem.
- Reviewer
of proposals for National Science Foundation, Petroleum Research Fund,
Department
of Energy, etc.
- Judge
for local science fairs
Courses Taught at Rochester
- CHM 211 Inorganic Chemistry
- CHM 234 Advanced Laboratory Techniques
- CHM 411 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I (MO theory,
structure and reactions
of transition metal complexes)
- CHM 412 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II (inorganic
spectroscopy, X-ray
crystallography)
- CHM 414 Bioinorganic Chemistry
Professional Affiliations
- American Chemical Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry
- Union of Concerned Scientists