Charles Gerard Riordan
Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University
of Delaware
Newark,
DE 19716
riordan(at)udel.edu
Professional Positions:
2012-, Vice Provost for Research,
University of Delaware
2010-2013, Vice Provost for Graduate and
Professional Education, University of Delaware
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
1994-1997, Graduate Faculty, Department of
Biochemistry, Kansas State University (promotion to Associate Professor with
tenure 1997)
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:
2010, Fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry
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
2007-12, Editorial Board, Dalton
Transactions
2007-09, 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,
2007-2010.
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
2011, ACS National Meeting, Anaheim,
co-organizer (with Prof. J. Figueroa) “Recent Advances in Strucutral
and Main Group Organometallic Chemistry ”
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: 22 April 2013