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Professional Preparation

1990

Université de Bordeaux I, Chemistry, M.S.

1994

University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D - Advisor: Alan Cowley

1999

Dr. Rer. Nat. Habil, Chemie, Technische Universität München, Advisor: Hubert Schmidbaur

Appointments

1990 - 1994

Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

1994 - 1996

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Technische Universität München with Hubert Schmidbaur

1996 - 1998

Habilitand, Technische Universität München

1998 - 2003

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

2003 - 2006

Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

2006 - Present

Professor, Texas A&M University

2008 - 2014

Davidson Professor of Science

2009

Visiting Professor at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse

2014 - 2016

Head, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

2014 - Present

Arthur E. Martell Chair of Chemistry

2019 - Present

Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University

Awards and Honors

1994 - 1996

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, TU München

1996 - 1998

Marie Curie European Commission Research Fellowship, TU München

2001

NSF Career Award

2007 - 2009

Editorial Board Member of Organometallics

2007 - 2018

Editorial Board Member of Heteroatom Chemistry

2007 - Present

Editorial Board Member of Main Group Chemistry

2008 - 2014

Davidson Professor of Science

2009

North American Dalton Lecturer, Berkeley

2011

Fellow of the American Chemical Society

2011

Chair of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry

2011 - 2019

Associate Editor for Organometallics

2012

Recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt re-invitee, Regensburg

2013

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

2013 - Present

Member of the Inorganic Syntheses board

2014 - Present

Arthur E. Martell Chair of Chemistry

2016

Boulder Scientific Innovation Lecturer, Colorado State University

2016

Chair of the Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Conference

2016

ACS F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry

2016 - Present

Editorial Board Member of Chem

2016 - Present

Editorial Board Member of Chemistry Select

2016 - Present

Honorary Member of the Israel Chemical Society

2017

Third Annual Anton B. Burg Memorial Lecturer, University of Southern California

2017

The James A. Ibers Summer Lectures, Northwestern University

2018

Lappert Lecturer, Dalton2018, Warwick

2018

Peter C. Reilly Lectrurer, Notre Dame

2019

Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Research

2019 - Present

Associate Editor for Chemical Science

2019 - Present

Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University

2022

Boron in the Americas (BORAM) Award

2022

Shore Lecturer, Ohio State University

2024

Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science

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