Peter C. Ford

Peter C. Ford
Phone: (805) 893-2443
Email: ford@chem.ucsb.edu
Dr. Ford was born in California in 1941. His undergraduate work at Caltech (B.S. with Honors, 1962) was followed by graduate study of organic oxidations at Yale University (Ph.D. 1966). The following year was spent as a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.

In 1967 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1972, to Professor in 1977 and to Professor, Abovescale in 1994. At UC Santa Barbara, he served as Graduate Advisor for Inorganic Chemistry (67-86; 93-94, 97-00), as Departmental Graduate Advisor (1981, 86-92, 99-03), as Department Vice Chair (03-06) and as Department Chair (1994-96).

Dr. Ford has served as Research Advisor for 53 students who have completed their Ph.D. theses and for a large number of B.S., M.S. and postdoctoral students. He has been a member of numerous review panels within the US and internationally.

Dr. Ford has been honored as a Dreyfus Foundation-Teacher Scholar, as a Fulbright Foundation Senior Fellow, with a Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung US Senior Scientist Research Prize, with the 1992 Richard C. Tolman Medal of the American Chemical Society, and with election as a Fellow of the AAAS, and with the 2008 I-APS Award in Photochemistry from the Inter-American Photochemical Society.

His current research interests include the mechanisms of catalytic conversion of biorenewable feedstocks, the photochemistry and photophysics of transition metal complexes, the bioinorganic chemistry of the nitrogen oxides and possible therapeutic applications of metal complex photoreactions. The Group's research studies have resulted in more than 300 publications in refereed journals.

Most Cited Publication

Synthesis and Properties of Pentaaminepyridineruthenium(2) and Related Pentaamineruthenium Complexes of Aromatic Nitrogen Complexes of Aromatic Nitrogen Heterocycles

American Chemical Society, Vol. 90, 1968

Awards Year

I-APS Award in Photochemistry 2008

SCACS Richard C. Tolman Medal 1992

Fellow of the AAAS

Fulbright Foundation Senior Fellow

Dreyfus Foundation-Teacher Scholar

Classes Currently Taught Office Hours

No classes Winter 2009.

Peter C. Ford Phone: (805) 893-2443 Email: ford@chem.ucsb.edu		Dr. Ford was born in California in 1941. His undergraduate work at Caltech (B.S. with Honors, 1962) was followed by graduate study of organic oxidations at Yale University (Ph.D. 1966). The following year was spent as a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. In 1967 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1972, to Professor in 1977 and to Professor, Abovescale in 1994. At UC Santa Barbara, he served as Graduate Advisor for Inorganic Chemistry (67-86; 93-94, 97-00), as Departmental Graduate Advisor (1981, 86-92, 99-03), as Department Vice Chair (03-06) and as Department Chair (1994-96).
Dr. Ford has served as Research Advisor for 53 students who have completed their Ph.D. theses and for a large number of B.S., M.S. and postdoctoral students. He has been a member of numerous review panels within the US and internationally. Dr. Ford has been honored as a Dreyfus Foundation-Teacher Scholar, as a Fulbright Foundation Senior Fellow, with a Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung US Senior Scientist Research Prize, with the 1992 Richard C. Tolman Medal of the American Chemical Society, and with election as a Fellow of the AAAS, and with the 2008 I-APS Award in Photochemistry from the Inter-American Photochemical Society. His current research interests include the mechanisms of catalytic conversion of biorenewable feedstocks, the photochemistry and photophysics of transition metal complexes, the bioinorganic chemistry of the nitrogen oxides and possible therapeutic applications of metal complex photoreactions. The Group's research studies have resulted in more than 300 publications in refereed journals.


Most Cited Publication
Synthesis and Properties of Pentaaminepyridineruthenium(2) and Related Pentaamineruthenium Complexes of Aromatic Nitrogen Complexes of Aromatic Nitrogen Heterocycles American Chemical Society, Vol. 90, 1968


Awards	Year
I-APS Award in Photochemistry	2008
SCACS Richard C. Tolman Medal	1992
Fellow of the AAAS
Fulbright Foundation Senior Fellow
Dreyfus Foundation-Teacher Scholar