Guillermo Carlos Bazan
Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510
(805) 893-5538
EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Postdoctoral Fellow, November 1990- May 1992
Professor John E. Bercaw
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. awarded in Inorganic Chemistry, February 1991
Professor Richard R. Schrock, Thesis Advisor
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
B. Sc. (Honors) awarded in Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude),
October 1986
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000- Director, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB
1999- Professor, Department of Materials Science, University of California,
Santa Barbara
1998- Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
1997-98 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester
1992-97 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester
AWARDS
Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation, 2005
NSF Special Creativity Award, 2003
Union Carbide Innovation Award, 1999
Union Carbide Innovation Award, 1998
Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1997
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1996-1998
Sloan Research Fellow Award, 1996-1998
NSF CAREER Award, 1995-1998
Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1992-1993
NSERCC Postdoctoral Fellowship, November 1990-May 1992
NSERCC 1967 Science and Engineering Scholarship, September 1986-June 1990
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Synthesis of organic molecules with architectures that optimize optoelectronic performance. Understanding the electronic delocalization between organic chromophores in the solid state. Design of biosensors based on light harvesting macromolecules. Oligomerization and polymerization reactions of olefins using well-defined organometallic catalysts.
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