Gregory S. Girolami

Gregory S. Girolami is the William and Janet Lycan Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received B.S. degrees both in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley. Thereafter, he was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College of Sciences and Technology in London, England, with Nobel Laureate Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983. Professor Girolami's research interests, which have been disseminated in over 200 research publications, include catalysis, materials science, and X-ray crystallography, and especially the synthesis of new inorganic and organometallic compounds and materials, investigations of their reactivity, and measurements and interpretations of their physical properties. He has received a Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and a University Scholar Award, and is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society.