Amar H Flood
James F. Jackson Professor of Chemistry (2013-2022)
Luther Dana Waterman Professor (2015-2020)
Address Department of Chemistry • Indiana University • 800 East Kirkwood Avenue • Bloomington, IN 47405
Telephone +1-812 856 3642 • Fax +1-812 855 8300 • Web www.indiana.edu/~floodweb
Teaching Email professorflood@gmail.com • Research Email aflood@indiana.edu
Academic Career
| Professor, Indiana University |
2015-present |
| Director of Graduate Studies (2013-2019) | 2013-2019 |
Associate Professor, Indiana University |
2011-2015 |
| Assistant Professor, Indiana University | 2005-2011 |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Supervisor: Sir Fraser Stoddart | 2002-2005 |
| Visiting PhD Student and Claude McCarthy Fellow at York University, Department of Chemistry, UK. Supervisors: R.E. Hester and J.N. Moore | Summer 1998 |
| Ph.D. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Supervisor: Keith C Gordon | 1997-2001 |
| BSc (1st Class honors), Summa Cum Laude, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand | 1993-1996 |
Honors and Awards
| Howard Fellow, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia | 2019 |
| Visiting Professor, Osaka University | 2012 |
| Award for Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry (Wiley) | 2011 |
| Cram Lehn Pedersen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (RSC) | 2011 |
| Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar | 2010 |
| NSF-CAREER Award | 2009 |
| Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award | 2008 and 2010 |
| Alliance Group Postgraduate Award | 1997-2001 |
| William Georgetti Scholarship | 1998 |
| Claude McCarthy Fellowship | 1998 |
| Joseph and Emma Mellor Prize | 1996 |
| Proudfoot Award | 1995 |
| Soper Prize in Chemistry | 1994 |
Summary of Research Output
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165 Publications, 178 Invited Talks, 42 Contributed Talks, 6 Book Chapters, 2 Patents awarded and 4 Pending |
Advisory Boards and Organizing Committees
| • Vice-chair, Telluride Science Research Conference (TSRC), Molecular Motors, Rotors and Switches | 2018 |
| • Chair, GRC “Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors” | 2017 |
| • Advisory Committee Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University | 2016-present |
| • Member of the Organizational Committee for the Workshop on Aromatic Foldamers | 2015-present |
| • Advisory Board Member for Chem (Cell Press) | 2015-2018 |
| • Vice-Chair, GRC on “Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors”, June 7-12, 2015 at Stonehill College, Easton, MA (USA) | 2015 |
| • Editorial Board Member for Supramolecular Chemistry (Taylor and Francis) | 2014-2016 |
| • Advisory Board Mmeber for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC) | 2012-2015 |
| • Co-Organizer with Alex Wei (Purdue University) for the special symposium on “Supramolecular Nanomaterials", Fall 2013 ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis | 2013 |
| • Session Chair at FNANO (Foundations of Nanoscience) for Chemically Integrated Systems, Snowbird, Utah, April ca. 15–18, annually | 2015 |
| • Co-organizer with David Amabilino (Barcelona Materials Science Institute) of the 2017 “Youngish Giants of Chemistry” Meeting | 2012-2017 |
| • Co-organizer of the 2013 International Symposium on Supramolecular and Macrocyclic Chemistry (ISMSC-2013) with Lyle Isaacs and Jeffery Davis from the University of Maryland | 2013 |
• Member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Supramolecular and Macrocyclic Chemistry (ISMSC) |
2009-2016 |
| • Co-organizer of a Special Symposium on "Functional nanoscale materials: synthesis, characterization, and applications" at the CERMACS in Indianapolis, June 8–10. With L. M. Bronstein, D. Lee, L.-S. Li, S. E. Skrabalak, S. L. Tait (Indiana University) | 2011 |
| • Presided over "Materials, Devices and Switches" Symposium at Fall ACS Meeting | 2009 |
| • Co-Organizer for the special symposium on “Molecular Machines, Nanomotors, and Active Nanostructures” MRS Spring 2008 (San Francisco) with Andrew Turberfield (Oxford University), Henry Hess (University of Florida) and Heiner Linke (University of Oregon) | 2008 |
| • Co-Organizer for “Youngish Giants of Chemistry” Edinburgh, UK | 2007 |