Dr. Joseph Hupp
Northwestern University

Adventures with Nanostructured Molecular Materials

Biography:

Joseph Hupp holds a B.S. degree from Houghton College (1979) and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Michigan State (1983) where he was a student of the late Mike Weaver. He was a postdoc with T. J. Meyer at the University of North Carolina where he studied photochemistry. He moved to Northwestern University in 1986 where he is currently a Morrison Professor of Chemistry. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Joe’s research centers on supramolecular chemistry and molecular materials, with an emphasis on applications in energy conversion and catalysis. His work is currently sponsored by the U S. Dept. of Energy, BP Solar, NSF, the Petroleum Research Fund, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He has published roughly 220 peer-reviewed papers and served as research advisor for 34 Ph.D. graduates. He is the recipient of numerous awards including an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Fresenius Award, and the Wagner Award of the Electrochemical Society.