August 2018 - Present | Professor and Department Chair, Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Chemistry | |
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Present | Faculty Researcher, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Center for Science, Technology, and Society (CSTS) | |
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2003 - 2018 | Professor of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia | |
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1995 - 2003 | Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia | |
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1989 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia | |
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1987 - 1989 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale University | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
DNA Base Deamination and Cross-Link Formation, Polar Order in Crystalline Organic Molecular Materials, Electronic Structure Theory: Dative Bonding, Structural Studies of Biopolymers: Deaminated DNA, ADA, and PMM/PGM, Astrochemistry: Chemistry in Interstellar Space, Nucleophilic Additions to Heterocumulenes, Electronic Structure Theory, New Concepts in Chemistry, Catalysis: Olefin Polymerization and Oscillating Chemical Reactions, Heteroarene Reduction: Hypoxia Selective Cancer Chemotherapeutics, Science Communication: Chemistry is in the News and Beyond, and Cross-Disciplinary Science Education: Mathematics and Life Sciences
Grants
2019 - 2021 | New Biomedical Research Core Facility: The Bio-CURE Lab at S&T |
Missouri University of Science & Technology, Office of Research | |
Colleague(s): Nuran Ercal, Vadym Mochalin, Rainer Glaser, Risheng Wang, Thomas Schuman, Anthony Convertine, Keith R. Buszek | |
$400,000 | |
2018 - 2020 | MRI: Acquisition of an ultrafast amplified laser system for nonlinear optics and time-resolved spectroscopic studies of condensed matter systems |
National Science Foundation | |
Colleague(s): Suchismita Guha, Ping Yu, Guang Bian, Rainer Glaser, Heather K. Hunt; co-PIs | |
$352,346 | |
2017 - 2020 | Biomimetic and Rubisco-Inspired CO2 Capture from Air. Rainer Glaser |
National Science Foundation, Chemistry | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
$438,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
Present | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science | Present | Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry | 1997 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chem., Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Fellow | 1985 - 1987 | Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Fellow | 1981 - 1984 | Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Fellow | 1982 - 1983 | Fulbright, Fellow |
Honors and Awards
- Visiting Professor, Inst. of Chem., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 2013, 2014
- Guest Professor, Dept. of Chem., Northwest Univ., Xi'an, 2013-2015
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, since 2004
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chem., Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 1997
- Fellow of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, 1985-87
- Fulbright Fellow, 1982-83
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 1981-84
- 2016 - 2017 Chancellor's Excellence Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2017.
- Inaugural Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence Award, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2012.
- Edward K. Mellon Honorary Seminar on Chemical Education, Florida State University, 2003-4.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (elected 2006)
1987 | Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley | |
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1984 | Chemistry Diplom, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen | |
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1983 | M.S. in Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley | |
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1980 | Chemistry Vordiplom, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen | |
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1979 | Physics Zwischenprüfung, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen | |
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Contact Information
Schrenk Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409-0010
573/341-4987
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