Academic Appointments

I am currently the Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida.  My independent academic career began as an Assistant Professor at Stanford in 1985.  I moved to the University of Florida as an Associate Professor in 1993 and was promoted to Professor in 1997.  Following a term as Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, I returned to the Department of Chemistry, where I became Director of the UF Beckman Scholars Program and then the Director of the NSF-CCI Center for Nanostructured Electronic Materials. I served as Chair of the Department from 2017-2024 (includes the COVID pandemic years!).  My research group has been the mentoring home of approximately 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who have in turn assisted with mentoring more than 100 undergraduate researchers.

International Activities

I believe that maintaining contact with the international scientific community is critical. I have presented my research in invited talks at universities, research institutes, workshops and conferences that span six continents. In addition to serving as a TUBİTAK Visiting Professor in Turkey in 2014, I have strong ties to the EU scientific community.  I have been a non-EU partner in three different EU COST Actions (CELINA, FIT4NANO, MultIChem) and the  EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, ELENA. After service as a Titular Member of the IUPAC Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Division Committee, I was named a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 2016.