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Chad Mirkin, Ph.D.
Northwestern University


Chad A. Mirkin, is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University. His research interests include bio-inspired materials chemistry, nanoparticles, surface chemistry, synthetic organometallic chemistry, electrochemistry, coordination chemistry, atomic force microscopy, synchrotron x-ray methods, and high resolution lithography.

Mirkin earned his BS degree in chemistry (1986) from Dickinson College and his PhD degree in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University (1989). He was a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow in chemistry from 1989 to 1991 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mirkin has authored over 120 manuscripts, co-authored 20 patents, and won several awards for his contributions to chemistry, including the Discover 2000 Innovation Award, the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the PLU Fresnius Award, the E. Bright Wilson Prize, the BFGoodrich Collegiate Invertors Award, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher -Scholar Award, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Dupont Young Professor Award, an NSF Young Investigator Award, a Naval Young Investigator Award, and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award. Mirkin also consults for several major chemical companies and is on the board of directors and scientific advisory boards of Nanosphere Inc. and NanoInk Inc. He also serves on the advisory board of several scholarly journals, including Advanced Materials, Biomacromolecules, Chemical and Engineering News, Chemistry: A New European Journal, Chemistry of Materials, Sensors and Journal of Cluster Science.


 
 
 
     
 

 
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