PERSONAL:

Birth date: March 23, 1957; Cuba, New York.
Address: Northwestern University
Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Center
Evanston, IL 60208
(847)491-3504 or (847)491-5371
E-mail: j-hupp@northwestern.edu

EDUCATION:

B.S., Chemistry, Houghton College, Houghton, New York, 1979. Honors thesis in electrochemistry. Ph.D., Chemistry, Michigan State University, November, 1983.

EXPERIENCE:

Morrison Professor of Chemistry, 2000-Present; Dow Professor of Chemistry, 1998-2000; Professor, 1993-present; Associate Professor, 1990-93; Assistant Professor, 1986-90, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University.

Research Associate, University of North Carolina, March 1984 to June 1986.

Research Associate, Purdue University, November 1983 to March 1984 (with Dr. M. J. Weaver).

Research and Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University, 1979-82; Purdue University, 1983.

Undergraduate Research Participant at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, summer 1979.

National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participant, University of Vermont, summer 1978.

Morrison Professorship, 2000-Present. Dow Professorship, 1998-2000. National Fresenius Award of Phi Lambda Upsilon, 1993. Henry and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1991-96. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1990-92. Atlantic Richfield Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow, 1986-87. Presidential Young Investigator, 1986-91. Sohio Fellowship, Michigan State University, summer 1982.

Experimental and theoretical aspects of electron transfer reactions, new mesoporous molecular materials, photochemical energy conversion, optical electron transfer, reactivity of molecular excited states, molecular recognition in synthetic systems, molecular electronics, chemical sensors, higher order electron transfer processes, chemically modified electrodes, cluster redox chemistry, solution and surface electrochemical thermodynamics and kinetics, synthetic coordination chemistry and metallopolymer chemistry.