Research Director and Advisor

Prof. Edward G. Gillan

 

E-mailedward-gillan@uiowa.edu

 

Contact information:

Department of Chemistry

University of Iowa

481 Chemistry Building

Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1294

phone: (319) 335-1308

fax: (319) 335-1270

 

 

Current Position since 2003

Associate Professor of Chemistry (tenured), University of Iowa

 

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry (Inorganic), University of California, Los Angeles, October 1994

 

B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, May 1989

 

Abbreviated Resume

 

Professional Background

1997 - 2003            Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Iowa

1994 - 1997            Postdoctoral Research Associate, Harvard University (94/95) and Rice University (95/97), Advisor:  Prof. Andrew R. Barron

1990 - 1994            Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, Advisor:  Prof. Richard B. Kaner

1989 - 1992            Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles

1988 - 1989            Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, Advisor: Prof. Neil Bartlett

Summer 1987        Research Assistant Supervisor: Dr. J. S. Sarma, Cardiology Department, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

 

Professional Service

2005        Chair of the Solid State and Materials Chemistry Subdivision of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry

 

Awards and Fellowships

1998:       Research Corporation Research Innovation Award

1997:       Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

1992:       UCLA Chemistry departmental award for excellence in research

1990:       UCLA Chemistry departmental award for distinguished teaching

1989 - 1993:  Solid State Fellowship from the UCLA Solid State Science Center

 

Affiliations

Optical Science and Technology Center (OSTC) member, University of Iowa

American Chemical Society (ACS) member

Materials Research Society (MRS) member

 

Teaching at the University of Iowa

Chemistry 4:29 - First Year Seminar (Looking Under the Hood:  Structure and Function of Materials in the Modern World)

Chemistry 4:13:  Principles of Chemistry I (first year undergraduate general chemistry)

Chemistry 4:125:  Inorganic Chemistry (sophomore/junior undergraduate level)

Chemistry 4:153:  Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (undergraduate level)

Chemistry 4:170:  Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (senior undergraduate/graduate level)

Chemistry 4:206:  Solid-State and Materials Chemistry (graduate level)