The 2014 Dalton Transactions Lecture awardee – Professor Christine Thomas (Brandeis University) – delivered her presentation at UC Berkeley last month. This Lecture is awarded annually to an exceptional young inorganic chemist in the Americas. Previous recipients are:
2013 Trevor Hayton (UCSB)
2012 Teri Odom (Northwestern University)
2011 Daniel Gamelin (U Washington)
2010 Paul Chirik (Princeton University)
2009 Francois Gabbai (Texas A & M University)
2008 Dan Mindiola (Indiana University)
2007 Geoff Coates (Cornell University)
2006 John Hartwig (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2005 Kit Cummins (MIT)
Each Dalton Transactions Lecture awardee is provided with an honorarium and a commemorative plaque.
Professor Thomas is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis University, and her research program focuses on synthetic inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry.
In 2010, Professor Thomas was selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program and in 2011, she was named a Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Christine is also the recipient of a 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award and was selected as a 2012 Organometallics Fellow and a 2013/2014 Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator. Her dedication to teaching was recognized with The 2012 Michael L. Walzer ’56 Award for Excellence in Teaching at Brandeis. In 2012, she joined the Advisory Board for Chemical Communications and, as of May 2014, she is an Associate Editor for Dalton Transactions.
Congratulations to Professor Thomas for her Dalton Transactions Lecture award!
