BRIAN V. POPP
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY
DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES
J. EVANS ATTWELL-WELCH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TX
Ph.D. CHEMISTRY, 2007
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON, MADISON, WI
M.S. CHEMISTRY, 2002
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY, DAYTON, OH
B.S. CHEMISTRY, 2001
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY, DAYTON, OH
Brian was born and raised in Dayton, OH. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Wright State University in 2001 and 2002. During this time, he worked in the lab of Prof. Vladimir Katovic studying the electrochemical properties of transition-metal complexes in room-temperature ionic liquids. He continued his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the mentorship of Prof. Shannon Stahl in the area of mechanistic inorganic/organometallic chemistry. He received a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in 2007 for his work unraveling the details of the oxygenation of reduced-Pd species relevant to homogeneous aerobic oxidation catalysis. In 2008, he moved to Rice University in Houston, Texas as a J. Evans Attwell-Welch Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Zach Ball where he gained a new perspective on organometallic catalysis by developing enzyme-like approaches for site-selective peptide and protein modification for the chemical biology community. He has been a been a tenure-track assistant professor in the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences since August 2011. His research group's interests mainly center in the areas of synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry where he also employs experimental and computational techniques synergistically. The group is also broadly interested in developing and employing contemporary chemical techniques for biological problems.
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