Professional career of Professor dr. Alan Rowan 

Source:  IMM Cluster for Molecular Chemistry website

 

Alan Rowan completed his PhD in physical organic chemistry in 1991 at the University of Liverpool, England. After a period of postdoctoral research at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, he returned to Europe and became an assistant professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the group of Roeland Nolte. In 2004, he became a full professor in molecular materials. His scientific interests are in the design and construction of supramolecular assemblages possessing catalytic and electronic properties.

He is also a member of the editorial advisory board for the RSC New Journal of Chemistry, member of the New Journals Advisory Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the International Advisory Board of Chemistry World.

1984-1987

University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
BSc. 1st Class Honours in Chemistry
Leverhulme Prize and Leblanc Medal
(Final Year Chemistry Prize Liverpool University)
1987-1990

University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry;
"N.M.R. and Computational Studies as a Probe for
Structural Elucidation in Solution"
supervisor: Professor R.J. Abraham
1991-1993

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
with Dr C.A.Hunter and Prof. D.A.Buckingham
1993-1994

Research Fellowship with Prof. R.J.M.Nolte.
University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2005-

Full Professor – Department of Molecular Materials
Institute of Molecules and Materials
University of Nijmegen

  Scientific Awards and Achievements 

  • Leverhulme Prize and Leblanc Medal Final Year Chemistry Prize Liverpool University-1987).

  • Jonge Chemie Award. Independent funding for one PhD position 1999. (Young Scientist Award. Biannual Funding awarded to the top 15 chemistry proposals, for all persons in the chemical sciences under the age of 40). Topic:-‘Nanosized Porphyrin Architectures’.;

  • One of the top cited articles for the Journal of Angewandte Chemie 1999. ‘Helical Molecular Programming’.

  • National Science Foundation, Vidi Research Award, 2001; ‘Catalytic Rotaxanes. Mimicking Nature’s Processive Catalysts’.

  • Member of the editorial advisory board for the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry (J. Mat. Chem.), (2003).

  • Awarded International SPP/JPP Young Investigator Award in Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (2004).

Source:  IMM Cluster for Molecular Chemistry website

 




Professor Doctor Roeland Nolte

Alan Rowan

The enzyme mechanism of nitrite reductase studied at single-molecule level  S. Kuznetsova, G. Zauner,
T.J. Aartsma, H. Engelkamp, N. Hatzakis, A.E. Rowan, R.J.M. Nolte, P.C.M. Christianen, and G.W. Canters, PNAS, (2008). PDFdoi:10.1073/pnas.0707736105

Synthesis and Characterization of Surface-Initiated Helical Polyisocyanopeptide Brushes E. Lim, G. Tu, E. Schwartz, J.J.L.M. Cornelissen, A.E. Rowan, R.J.M. Nolte, and W.T.S. Huck, Macromolecules,
PDF doi:10.1021/ma702531u

Supramolecular porphyrin polymers in solution and at the solid-liquid interface R. van Hameren, A.M. van Buul, M.A. Castriciano, V. Villari, N. Micali, P. Schön, S. Speller, L.M. Scolaro, A.E. Rowan, J.A.A.W. Elemans, and R.J.M. Nolte, , Nano Lett., PDF doi:10.1021/nl072563f

More Publications: check the website
IMM Rowan group for Molecular Chemistry

Contact Information

Prof. dr. Alan E. Rowan
Radboud University Nijmegen Department of Organic Chemistry   Phone:
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