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Allen J. Bard, Director Hackerman Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry Chemistry and Biochemistry Department The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station A5300 Austin, TX 78712-0165 PH: (512) 471-3761 Fax: (512) 471-0088 Email: ajbard@mail.utexas.edu http://research.cm.utexas.edu/abard/ |
Dr. Bard joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1958, and has spent his entire career here. He has been the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at UT since 1985. He spent a sabbatical in the CNRS lab of Jean-Michel Savéant in Paris in 1973 and a semester in 1977 at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a Sherman Mills Fairchild Scholar. He was also a Baker lecturer at Cornell University in the spring of 1987 and the Robert Burns Woodward visiting professor at Harvard University in 1988. He has worked as mentor and collaborator with 78 Ph.D students, 17 M.S. students, 150 postdoctoral associates, and numerous visiting scientists. He has published over 790 peer-reviewed research papers and 75 book chapters and other publications, and has received over 23 patents. He has authored three books, Chemical Equilibrium (1966), Electrochemical Methods—Fundamentals and Applications (1980, 2nd Ed., 2001, with L. R. Faulkner), and Integrated Chemical Systems: A Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology (1994). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society 1982-2001. His research interests involve the application of electrochemical methods to the study of chemical problems and include investigations in scanning electrochemical microscopy, electrogenerated chemiluminescence and photoelectrochemistry. |
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Richard M. Crooks Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Department The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station A5300 Austin, TX 78712-0165 PH: (512) 475-8639 Fax: (512) 475-8651 Email: crooks@cm.utexas.edu http://research.cm.utexas.edu/rcrooks/ |
Dr. Crooks received his BS degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981 working under the direction of Dr. Larry R. Faulkner. He graduated with a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1987 working under the direction of Dr. Allen J. Bard specializing in electrochemistry. After completing postdoctoral work at MIT (1987-1989), Crooks started his teaching career as an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico from 1989 – 1993. He later transferred to Texas A&M becoming an Associate Professor from 1993-1997 with a promotion to full Professor from 1997-2005. During his time at A&M, Crooks was the founding director of the Center for Integrated Microchemical Systems. Currently, Crooks is a Professor of Chemistry at UT hosting a group of approximately 10 graduate students, three postdoctoral fellows and two undergraduates. The Crooks group has broad interests in electrochemistry, biological and chemical microsensors, and nanomaterials. At present, projects are focused in two areas: (1) synthesis and characterization of highly selective nanocomposite catalysts, (2) design and fabrication of a new family of sensors based on micro- and nanofluidic devices. |
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Arumugam Manthiram |
Dr. Arumugam Manthiram is the BFGoodrich Endowed Professor in Materials Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras (Chennai) in 1980. After working as a lecturer at Madurai Kamaraj University and as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor John Goodenough at the University of Oxford and UT-Austin, he became Assistant Professor in 1991 and Professor in 2000 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT-Austin. He is an active participant of the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program, Texas Materials Institute, Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology, and the Center of Electrochemistry. Dr. Manthiram’s research focuses on the development of less expensive, more efficient, new materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells, direct methanol fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells, lithium ion batteries, and supercapacitors. He has authored more than 300 publications including 230 journal articles and 4 patents. Dr. Manthiram has graduated 18 Ph.D. students so far, and he currently directs a research group of 14 graduate students and 1 postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Manthiram received the Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in 1994 and the Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty Leadership Award in 1996. He was honored with the Charlotte Maer Patton Centennial Fellowship in Engineering in 1998, the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professorship in Engineering in 2002, and the BFGoodrich Endowed Professorship in Materials Engineering in 2006. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2004 and as a Founding Fellow of the World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering in 2006. |
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Jeremy P. Meyers |
Dr. Jeremy Meyers earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2006.
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Keith J. Stevenson Associate Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Department The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station A5300 Austin, TX 78712-0165 PH: (512) 475-8639 Fax: (512) 475-8651 Email: stevenson@cm.utexas.edu http://research.cm.utexas.edu/kstevenson/ |
Dr. Keith J. Stevenson received his BA in Chemistry from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington in 1989. Subsequently, he joined ATI Technologies, Inc. as an Analytical Chemist and focused on method development in the environmental testing of soil and water. In 1992, he left industry to pursue a Ph.D. in Physical/Analytical Chemistry at the University of Utah. Working under the direction of Prof. Henry. S. White, his graduate work focused on the development of electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (E-STM) and associated techniques for studying adsorption phenomena at solid/liquid interfaces. In 1997, he moved to Northwestern University to work with Prof. Joseph T. Hupp where his postdoctoral research activities included the study of mesoporous materials, the development of integrated scanning probe and optical imaging techniques, and the improvement of optical-based chemical sensors. At the University of Texas at Austin, Stevenson’s research concentrates on the creation of advanced functional electrode materials, as well as, on new microscopic tools for their characterization. From a more applied standpoint, this information is useful for the design and optimization of superior chemical technologies associated with the areas of chemical sensing, energy storage/conversion, separations, photonics, and device miniaturization. He is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award (2002), the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools New Scholar Award (2004), and the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Young Investigator Award (2006). He is also a member of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology and the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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