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.

AWARDS:

• C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry Outstanding Faculty Award 2019
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2018
• RCCE Shale Gas Flash Funding Award 2014
• Don and Linda Brodie Discovery and Innovation Award 2012
• J. Evans Attwell-Welch Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2008
• Inorganic Chemistry Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award 2007
• Perkin Medal Scholarship presented by Dr. Jim Stevens (Corporate Fellow, Dow Chemical Company) 2006
• Belle-Crowe Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry Award 2002
• Dubois-Nussey Excellence in Chemistry Scholarship 2000

TEACHING:

• CHEM 234: Organic Chemistry II
• CHEM 235: Organic Chemistry I Laboratory
• CHEM 236: Organic Chemistry II Laboratory
• CHEM 521: Organometallic Chemistry
• CHEM 533: Advanced Organic Structure Determination
• CHEM 793D: Special Topics–Bioogranic Chemistry
• HONR 450: Honors EXCEL Thesis Capstone

CONTACT INFORMATION:

• Email: Brian.Popp@mail.wvu.edu
• Office: 100 Prospect Street, Chemistry Research Laboratory RM 457
• Mailing Address: Bennett Department of Chemistry, PO Box 6045, Morgantown, WV 26506
• Phone: 304.293.0773
• Fax: 304.293.4904