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About Rainer Glaser

Rainer E. Glaser studied Chemistry and Physics at the Universitaet Tuebingen (Zwischenpruefung, 1979; Vordiplom, 1980; Chemie Diplom, 1984), Germany, at the University of California (M.S., 1983; Ph.D., 1987), Berkeley , CA and at Yale University (post-doctoral studies 1987-89), New Haven, CT. He joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Missouri (MU) in 1989 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2003. In 2018, he transferred to the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) to lead the Department of Chemistry as Professor and Chair.

Dr. Glaser and his group have published over 200 papers and book chapters on a broad range of topics and presented over 250 invited lectures and more than 280 contributed presentations. Roughly a quarter of these publications have resulted from local, national and international collaborations with colleagues in chemistry, physics, mathematics, biochemistry, science education and journalism.

Dr. Glaser received fellowships from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Hokkaido, Visiting Professor, 1997), the Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, Senior International Visiting Professor 2013 & 2014), and Northwest University in Xi'an (Guest Professor, 2013-), and has been funded by NSF (CHE, DUE, MRI), NIH (NIGMS, NCI), ACS-PRF (G, AC, SE, ND) and other sources. Dr. Glaser was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Glaser has been serving on many committees in the UM system, and he has been active to strengthen shared governance, academic freedom, peer review, science ethics and science communication.

Rainer Glaser and Julia M. Chang (UC Berkeley, 1984) married in 1996 after a courtship of some ten exciting years, and the couple has two children, Katharine "Kayla" Jade Glaser (b. 1997) and James Chang Glaser (b. 2001), and two cats, our blue Russian Tippy and our brown Noodle.

Positions

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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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

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
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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
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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)

Education

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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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Research Works (172)