Andrew B. Bocarsly

 

Department of Chemistry, Frick Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

 

Personal Data:

            Date/Birth:                                      April 23, 1954

            Place/Birth:                                     Los Angeles, California

            Marital Status:                                Married to Patricia A. Fitzgerald

 

Education:

            Massachusetts Institute of Technology - PhD - June 1980

            Major Field:                                   Physical Inorganic Chemistry

            Thesis Advisor:                               Professor Mark Wrighton

            Thesis Title:                                    “Characterization and Manipulation of Charge Transfer Processes at the Semiconductor Electrolyte Interface”

           

            University of California at Los Angeles, B.S., Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors in Chemistry - June 1976

            Major Field:                                   Double Major in Chemistry and Physics

            Research Advisor:                          Professor John Gladysz

            Research Area:                               “Metal Atom Cocondensations for Organometallic Synthesis”

           

Professional Experience:

            1994 - Present                               Professor of Chemistry

                                                                  Princeton University

            1987 - 1994                                   Associate Professor of Chemistry

                                                                  Princeton University

            1980 - 1987                                   Assistant Professor of Chemistry

                                                                  Princeton University

            1976 - 1980                                   Graduate Research Assistant

                                                                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

            1975 (Summer)                              Laboratory Assistant

                                                                  Department of Chemistry, UCLA

            1973 - 1974                                   Laboratory Assistant

                                                                  Department of Chemical Engineering, UCLA

Honors:

            President's Undergraduate Research Fellowship UCLA (1975)

            Phi Beta Kappa

            Sigma Pi Sigma - National Physics Honor Society

            DuPont Young Faculty Grant (1980)

            Dreyfus Foundation Newly Appointed Faculty Grant (1980)

            American Chemical Society, EXXON Solid State Chemistry Fellowship (1984)

            Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1986 - 1988)

           

Professional Associations and Activities:

            American Chemical Society

            The Electrochemical Society

            Princeton Section, ACS, Secretary-Treasurer, 1992

            Princeton Section, ACS, Chairman, 1994

            Princeton Secion, ACS, Education Outreach Chair and

            Director of “Hands on Chemistry” Workshops 1992-present

            Quest K-6 Science Outreach Professor 1996-1998

            Associate Editor, Methods in Materials Research: A Current Protocols Pub.

            NSF Advisory Panel to E=mc2, Elem. Science Ed.

            Director, Princeton Partners in Science Program

            NASA, Mars Oxidation Experiment Science Team (1997-8)

 

List of Publications

            Publications

 

 

 

 

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