Charles Gerard Riordan

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Delaware

Newark, DE 19716

riordan(at)udel.edu


Publications

Invited Lectures


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