Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, June 1982 Advisor: George M. Whitesides
Thesis: Surface Chemistry of Platinum and Polyethylene
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
B.S. (summa cum laude) in Chemistry, June 1978 Advisor: C. Peter Lillya
Thesis: Metal-Carbon Bonding in Small Ring Organometallic Complexes
Positions
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 1982 - August 1986
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 1986 - August 1991
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 1991 - September 2016
Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 2016 - present
Head, Polymer Science and Engineering
July 2000 - October 2003
Guest Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
July 2005 - present
Visiting Professor, Kyushu University
October 2014 - December 2014