Charles Gerard Riordan
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Vice President for Research, Scholarship & Innovation
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
riordan(at)udel.edu
Tel: 302-831-4007
Twitter: @UDResearch
@cgriordan
Charlie
Riordan serves
as Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation with responsibility
for advancing the University's research enterprise, including oversight of the
University’s Research Office, seven University-wide research institutes, core
facilities and the Office of Economic
Innovation and Partnerships. The
University of Delaware (UD) is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a very
high research activity, a distinction achieved by less than 3 percent of U.S.
colleges and universities. UD ranks
among the top 100 universities in terms of federal R&D support for science
and engineering. Riordan is an inorganic
chemist whose research has been supported primarily by the National Science
Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He is the recipient of a 1994
National Science Foundation Young
Investigator Award (NYI). A member of
the UD faculty since 1997, he served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry from 2002-07 and was Vice Provost for Graduate and
Professional Education from 2010-13.
Riordan served on the University's Path to Prominence strategic
planning committee and chaired the University’s 2014-15 strategic planning
process, which led to the current University strategic plan, Delaware
Will Shine. He received the University's outstanding
doctoral graduate advising and mentoring award in 2008. An elected fellow
of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and
the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, he received the 2013
American Chemical Society Delaware Section Award for his scholarly
research. Riordan was elected into Texas
A&M University’s College of Science Academy of Distinguished Former
Students. Riordan has served on the
editorial advisory boards of Inorganic
Chemistry, the Journal of Biological
Inorganic Chemistry and Dalton
Transactions. He has served on numerous review panels and committees,
including a three-year stint as Chair, of the NIH MSF-A study section. He earned his bachelor's degree at the College of Holy Cross, his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University and was a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of Chicago.
Professional
Positions:
2016-, Vice President for
Research, Scholarship & Innovation, University of Delaware
2014-2016, Deputy Provost for
Research and Scholarship, University of Delaware
2012-2014, 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
1993-1997, Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University (promotion to Associate
Professor with tenure 1997)
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:
2013, Elected Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2013, American Chemical
Society, Delaware Section Award
2012, E. Arthur Trabant Award for Women’s Equity
given to the UD ADVANCE Team
2010, Elected Fellow of the
Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.)
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, Service and Board Memberships:
2017-, Chair, Board of
Directors, Delaware Innovation Space, Inc.
2017-, Member, Board of
Directors, First State Innovation
2012-, Secretary, University
of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF)
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
2017-2019, ACS National Award
Selection Committee
2009-2011, ACS National Award
Selection Committee
2003, Chair, Bioinorganic
Subdivision, Division of Inorganic Chemistry (Served as Chair-Elect in 2002)
1995, Chair, Kansas State
Section
1994, Vice-Chair, Kansas
State Section
ACS Symposia Organized
2018, ACS National Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, Co-chair (with Profs. J. Yang, D. Lacy) Symposium “Honoring
the ACS F. A. Cotton Award Recipient”
2017, ACS National Meeting,
Anaheim, CA, Co-chair (with Dr. D. Mason) Symposium “Honoring the ACS
Organometallic Chemistry Award Recipient”
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, Co-chair (with Dr. D. Riley) Symposium “Honoring the ACS Inorganic
Distinguished Service and Organometallic Award Recipients”
2016, Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC)
Conference, Small Molecule Activation, co-organizer (with Profs. Borovik and
Tolman)
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)
2015-2020, Treasurer
2007-2011, Secretary;
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
2013, Elected Fellow
Royal Society of Chemistry
2010, Elected Fellow
last modified: 11 February
2019