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Professional Experience

 

Full Professor

Associate Professor

WKU, Department of Chemistry, 2017─ present

WKU, Department of Chemistry, 2012─2017

Assistant Professor

Western Kentucky University (WKU), KY, USA
Department of Chemistry, 2006─2012


Alexander-von-Humboldt
Postdoctoral Fellow


University of Würzburg, Germany. 6/2001─12/2002
(Mentor: Prof. Dr. Waldemar Adam)


Research Assistant


University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 3/1997─3/2001
(Advisor:  Prof. Chi-Ming Che)

Service Activities

  • Assistant to Department Head, 2012 — 2015
  • Department Committees and Services
    • Chemistry Club (ACS Student Affiliate Chapter) Advisor, 20062008

·         Chapter won Outstanding Award (highest) from ACS, 20062007

·         Chapter won Commendable Award from ACS, 20072008

      • Chapter won a ACS grant award of $2800 to host the undergraduate program at SERMACS meeting in Nashville, 2008

·         Physic Chemistry Search Committee, 2008-09

·         Organic Chemistry Search Committee, 2008-09

·         Senior Research Associate Search Committee, 20092010

·         Chemistry Advisor, 2011

·         Departmental Office Associate Search Committee, Chair, 2013

·         Graduate Office Associate of the Search Committee, Chair, 2013

·         Organic Chemistry Search Committee Chair, 2015

 

  • College Committees and Services
    • Ogden College Student Awards Committee, Spring 2007, 2008, 2009
    • Ogden College Faculty Awards Committee, Spring 2008, 2012, 2013
    • Ogden College Faculty Sabbatical Committee, 2012
    • Ogden College Space Committee, 20122015

 

  • University Committees and Services
    • Ogden Dean Search Committee, April October, 2011
    • Member, Professional Education Council, 20092013, 2015
    • FUSE grant reviewer, 2014, 2015 and 2016
    • Olympic Science Coordinator (Cannot judge a powder), 2015
    • Olympic Science Coordinator (Wright Stuff), 2016 and 2017

 

  • Public and Professional Services

·         NSF Proposal reviewer for Chemical Catalysis program

·         NSF Panelist (11 proposals reviewed) for the TUES program

·         Panelist (21 proposals reviewed) for the SMART program of Department of Defense

·         Invited Journal Reviewer for Journal of Organic Chemistry 2003present (>30            manuscripts reviewed)

·         Journal Referee for Chemical Coummunications, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Catalysis, Coordination Chemistry Review, Applied Catalysis A; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

·         Proposal Reviewer for the ACS Petroleum Research Fund

·         Chair of Chemistry Division, Kentucky Academy of Science, 2010

·         Committee member of the 96th Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting

·         Secretary of Chemistry Division, Kentucky Academy of Science, 2009

·         Judge for 95th Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting

·         Committee chairs for final defense of Master degree, 2009

·         Committee member of 60th SERMACS, 20072008

·         Judge for 94th Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY

·         Judge for 60th SERMACS Meeting (Undergraduate program), Nashville, TN

·         Faculty advisor for WKU Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA), 2012

 

 

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