The 2015 Dalton Transactions Lecture awardee – Professor Mircea Dincă (MIT, USA) – delivered his presentation at UC Berkeley in March 2016. This Lecture is awarded annually to an exceptional young inorganic chemist in the Americas. Previous recipients are:
2014 Christine Thomas (Brandeis University)
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 Dincă is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the functional chemistry of inorganic and metal-organic materials, with a current emphasis on porous materials and high-nuclearity metal clusters.
Congratulations to Professor Dincă for his Dalton Transactions Lecture award!