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Professional Experience
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Full Professor
Associate Professor
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WKU,
Department of Chemistry, 2017─ present
WKU, Department of Chemistry, 2012─2017
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Assistant Professor
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Western Kentucky University (WKU), KY, USA
Department of Chemistry, 2006─2012
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Alexander-von-Humboldt
Postdoctoral Fellow
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University of Würzburg, Germany. 6/2001─12/2002
(Mentor: Prof. Dr. Waldemar Adam)
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Research Assistant
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University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 3/1997─3/2001
(Advisor: Prof. Chi-Ming Che)
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Service Activities
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- Assistant
to Department Head, 2012 — 2015
- Department
Committees and Services
- Chemistry Club (ACS
Student Affiliate Chapter) Advisor, 2006—2008
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Chapter won Outstanding Award (highest) from ACS,
2006—2007
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Chapter won Commendable Award from ACS, 2007—2008
- Chapter
won a ACS grant award of $2800 to host the undergraduate program at
SERMACS meeting in Nashville, 2008
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Physic Chemistry Search Committee, 2008-09
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Organic Chemistry Search Committee, 2008-09
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Senior Research Associate Search Committee, 2009—2010
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Chemistry Advisor, 2011—
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Departmental Office Associate Search Committee,
Chair, 2013
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Graduate Office Associate of the Search Committee,
Chair, 2013
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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, 2012—2015
- University
Committees and Services
- Ogden
Dean Search Committee, April —October, 2011
- Member,
Professional Education Council, 2009—2013, 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
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NSF Proposal reviewer for Chemical Catalysis
program
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NSF Panelist (11 proposals reviewed) for the TUES
program
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Panelist (21 proposals reviewed) for the SMART
program of Department of Defense
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Invited Journal Reviewer
for Journal of Organic Chemistry 2003—present (>30 manuscripts
reviewed)
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Journal
Referee for Chemical Coummunications,
Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of
Catalysis, Coordination Chemistry Review, Applied Catalysis A; Industrial &
Engineering Chemistry Research
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Proposal Reviewer for the ACS Petroleum Research
Fund
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Chair of Chemistry Division, Kentucky Academy of
Science, 2010
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Committee member of the 96th Kentucky
Academy of Science Annual Meeting
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Secretary of Chemistry Division, Kentucky Academy
of Science, 2009
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Judge for 95th Kentucky Academy of Science
Annual Meeting
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Committee chairs for final defense of Master degree, 2009—
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Committee member of 60th
SERMACS, 2007—2008
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Judge for 94th Kentucky Academy of
Science Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY
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Judge for 60th SERMACS Meeting
(Undergraduate program), Nashville, TN
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Faculty advisor for WKU Chinese Students &
Scholars Association (CSSA), 2012—
