Education:
Ph.D., Chemistry, December 2005
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
B.A., Chemistry, summa cum laude, May 2000
Knox College, Galesburg, IL
Experience:
Professor of Chemistry, Research and Instruction, University of Rochester, 2026 - present
Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, 2025
NSF Division of Chemistry Program Director, 2019 - 2025
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, 2015 - 2025
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, 2008 - 2015
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow 2005 - 2008
Advisor: Professor Keith A. Woerpel, University of California, Irvine
Project: Silirene-Mediated Synthesis of Allylic Amines and Allylic Amino Alcohols
Graduate Student, 2000 - 2005
Advisors: Professors Robert G. Bergman and John Arnold, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Catalytic Hydroamination of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons with Anilines: Cationic Tantalum Imido Complexes and Brønsted Acids
Undergraduate Researcher, 1998 - 2000
Advisor: Professor Thomas W. Clayton, Knox College
Honors Thesis Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Mesomorphic Heteroleptic Carboxylate Complexes of Cu(II): Cu(O2CC7H15)3(O2CR)
Teaching:
Advanced Physical Organic Chemistry II, Experimental Methods for Mechanistic Analysis (Chem 434, URochester)
Organic Chemistry II (Chem 234, UIC)
Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallics (Chem 517, UIC)
Spectroscopic Organic Structure Determination (Chem 531, UIC)
