Curriculum Vitae: Assistant Professor Amar H Flood
Address Department of Chemistry • Indiana University • 800 East Kirkwood Avenue • Bloomington, IN 47405
Email aflood@indiana.edu • Telephone +1-812 856 3642 • Fax +1-812 855 8300 • Web www.indiana.edu/~floodweb
Academic Career
| Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Department of Chemistry, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
2005-present |
| Research Assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Supervisor: Sir Fraser Stoddart FRS (now Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA) |
2004-2005 |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Supervisor: Sir Fraser Stoddart |
2002-2004 |
| Claude McCarthy Fellow at York University, Department of Chemistry, UK. Supervisors: R.E. Hester and J.N. Moore |
Summer 1998 |
| Ph.D. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Supervisor: Keith C Gordon |
1997-2001 |
| BSc (1st Class honors), Summa Cum Laude, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand |
1993-1996
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Honors and Awards
| NSF-CAREER Award |
2009 |
| Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award |
2008 |
| Alliance Group Postgraduate Award |
1997-2001 |
| William Georgetti Scholarship |
1998 |
| Claude McCarthy Fellowship |
1998 |
| Joseph and Emma Mellor Prize |
1996 |
| Proudfoot Award |
1995 |
| Soper Prize in Chemistry |
1994 |
Funding Sources
| DOE (Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences) |
2009-2012 |
| NSF-CAREER Award |
2009-2014 |
| NSF-NER |
2007-2008 |
Teaching and Mentoring Experience
| Postdoctoral |
Dr I Bhandyopadhyay (UKansas), Dr Y Li (ICCAS, Beijing, China) |
| Graduate |
K A McNitt (Masters), A I Share, K Parimal, E H Witlicki, Y Hua, K E McDonald, S. Lee
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| Undergraduate |
A C Fahrenbach (Northwestern U), J Meisel, E O Uduehi, V Bottomley, K Mandla, J Thomas |
| Visitors |
Dr S Nygaard (Supervisor: J. O. Jeppesen, now Teknologisk Institut, Århus, Denmark) |
Summary of Research Output
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63 Papers, 18 Invited Talks, 32 Contributed Talks, 3 Book Chapters
H-index: 27 (WoS, 16 October 2009); Citations: 2,223 (WoS, 16 October 2009)
see Publications
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Collaborations
| Jan O. Jeppesen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark |
| Douglas A. Vander Griend, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, USA |
| Eric W. Wong, Atomate Corp., CA, USA |
| Lasse Jensen, Penn State, PA, USA |
| Krishnan Raghavachari, Indiana University, IN, USA |
| Ksenija D. Glusac, OH, USA |
| Christopher M. Hadad, OH, USA |
| Leonidas Bachas, University of Kentucky, KY, USA |
Outreach and Synergistic Activities
| • Presided over "Materials, Devices and Switches" Symposium at Fall ACS Meeting |
2009 |
| • Lectures and yearly (“Halloween Slime”) hands-on polymer experiments at Bloomington South High School, Indiana, USA (Featured in local newspaper, Herald Times, Dec 12, 2008) |
2006-2008 |
• Invited to comment by Chemistry World on topics related to molecular machines Dec 2007, p24; Dec 2008, online
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2007-2008 |
• Co-Organizer for the special symposium on “Molecular Machines, Nanomotors, and Active Nanostructures” MRS Spring 2008 (San Francisco) with Andrew Turberfield (Oxford University), Henry Hess (University of Florida) and Heiner Linke (University of Oregon)
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2008 |
• Co-Organizer for “Youngish Giants of Chemistry” Edinburgh, UK
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2007 |
• Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) meeting, Indianapolis, USA
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2005 |
• CNSI Outreach Group, Solar Cell Project, Teaching High School Science Teachers. Introductory lecture, two full workshops, 30 solar kits distributed. http://voh.chem.ucla.edu/outreach.php3
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2003-2005 |
• William Colenso College, Napier, New Zealand, "Success with Molecular Machines by Having Fun, and being Creative and Productive" 24 May 2004 (Also featured in The Napier Mail (June 2, 2004) and Hawke's Bay Today (May 25, 2004)
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2004 |
• Inaugural Co-Editor to Spheres - A Student Magazine on Nanoscale Research
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2002 |
• Outreach to Primary School Children, Ages 8-10, Dunedin, New Zealand
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2000 |
| • Worked with an Education Graduate student explaining the collaborative process that takes place between scientists and engineers |
2002 |
