Charles
Gerard Riordan
Professional Positions:
2002-2007, Chair, Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, University of Delaware
2001-, Professor, Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
1999-2002, Director of Graduate Studies and
Assistant Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Delaware
1997-2001, Associate Professor, Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
1997, Associate Professor (P&T fully
approved), Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University
1994-1997, Graduate Faculty, Department of
Biochemistry, Kansas State University
1993-1997, Assistant Professor, Department of
Chemistry, Kansas State University
Education:
1990-92, Research Associate: University of Chicago under the direction of Professor Jack Halpern. Kinetics, Mechanism and Thermodynamics of Iron-Carbon Bond
Dissociation in Organoiron Porphyrin Complexes.
1990, Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry: Texas A&M University. Dissertation Title:
"Reactions of Thiols with Low Valent Transition Metals: From Metal(0)
Thiol Complexes to Metal(II) Thiolatohydrides" under the direction of Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg.
1986, B. A. in chemistry: College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Senior Project:
"Synthesis of Group VI Alkyne Complexes" under the direction of Professor Richard S. Herrick.
Honors, Awards and
Professional Recognition:
2009, Lecturer, Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science
2008, Outstanding Doctoral Graduate
Advising and Mentoring Award, University of Delaware
2006, Lecturer, Chemistry Promotion
Center of the National Science Council of Taiwan
2005, Fellow, Academy of Distinguished
Former Students, Texas A&M College of Science
2003, Karcher Lecturer, University of
Oklahoma
1994-99, National Science Foundation Young
Investigator (NYI).
1990, Sharon Dabney Memorial Graduate
Research Award sponsored by Phi Lambda Upsilon, Texas A&M University.
1990, Department of Chemistry Inorganic
Research Award sponsored by the ACS, Texas A&M University.
1988-89, Arthur E. Martell Travel Grant
Award; Texas A&M University.
1988-89, Phi Lambda Upsilon Travel Grant
Award; Texas A&M University.
1986, American Institute of Chemists
Award; College of the Holy Cross.
Professional Societies
and Service:
2008-10, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal
of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
2007-09, Editorial Board, Dalton
Transactions
2007-, Editorial Advisory Board, Current
Chemical Biology
2000-02, Editorial Advisory Board, Inorganic
Chemistry
National Science Foundation
Review Panels - 1997 CAREER Awards; 1998 NATO Fellowships
National Institutes of
Health: Ad hoc member, Metallobiochemistry Study Section 2000, 2001, 2002;
MSF-A, 2005: Regular member MSF-A 2006-2010; Chair, 2007-.
American Chemical Society
2002, Chair-Elect, Bioinorganic Subdivision,
Division of Inorganic Chemistry (Chair in 2003)
1995, Chair, Kansas State Section
1994, Vice-Chair, Kansas State Section
ACS Symposia Chaired
2003, ACS National Meeting, New Orleans,
LA, Chair (with Prof. T. Brunold) “Bioorganometallic Enzymology ”
2000, ACS National Meeting, Washington,
DC, Chair (with Prof. J. Mayer) Symposium “Reactions of Radicals with Metal
Ions”
2000, Mid-Atlantic Regional ACS Meeting,
Inorganic Program Chair
1995, ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA,
Chair (with Dr. D. Riley) Symposium “Honoring the ACS Inorganic Distinguished
Service and Organometallic Award Recipients ”
2004, 4th International
Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC), Organizing Committee Member
2008, International Symposium on
Bioorganometallic Chemistry (ISBOMC’08), Local Organizing Committee Member
Society of Biological
Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)
2007-2011, Secretary, Council Member;
Secretary-Elect, 2006
American Institute of
Chemists
Phi Lambda Upsilon
1988-90, President, Beta Beta Chapter, Phi
Lambda Upsilon National Chemistry Honor Society, Texas A&M University
Sigma Xi
American Association for
the Advancement of Science
last modified: June 02, 2008