Associate Professor
Dow Chemical Company Research Professor
Department of Chemistry
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 847-491-7674
Fax: 847-491-7713
e-mail: todom@northwestern.eduAcademic Training
Post-doctoral Research, Harvard University, 2001-2002
Ph.D. Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 2001
B.S. Chemistry, Stanford University, 1996
Honors and Awards
Defense Science Study Group Member, 2010
MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 2009
ACS National Fresenius Award (Phi Lambda Upsilon and ACS), 2008
NIH Director's Pioneer Award, 2008
Rohm and Haas New Faculty Award, 2007
ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship, 2006
Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation), 2005
DuPont Young Investigator Grant, 2005
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2005
Named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as "one of the world’s top young innovators", 2004
NSF NUE Award, 2004-2006
NSF CAREER Award, 2004-2008
David and Lucille Packard Fellowship, 2003-2007
Victor K. LaMer Award (ACS Colloids and Surface Chemistry), 2003
Research Innovation Award, 2002
Dow Teacher-Scholar Award, 2002-2004
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 2001-2002
Australian Journal of Chemistry Top Prize, 2001
IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, 2001
White Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching, Harvard University, 1999
NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 1996-99
Karplus Award for Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 1996
S.S. & I.M.F. Marsden Memorial Prize for Chemistry Research, Stanford University, 1996
Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1996Invited Presentations
Stanford CCNE, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2009
Rice University, Houston, TX, 2009
ACS Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 2009
Clusters Gordon Research Conference, Mt Holyoke, MA, 2009
German-American Frontiers of Science, Irvine, CA, 2009
UCLA CNSI, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
EIBPN 2009, Marco Island, FL, 2009
Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009
FNANO09, Snowbird, UT, 2009
MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, 2009
ACS Spring Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2009
First International Conference on Tissue Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, 2009
Japan-American Kavli Frontiers of Science (FOS) Symposium, Irvine, CA, 2008
Global NSEE Workshop, Washington, DC, 2008
Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL, 2008
University of Texas A&M, College Station, TX, 2008
University of California, Riverside, CA, 2008
MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2008
NSF-MEXT Young Researchers Exchange Program, Japan, 2008
Penn State University, University Park, PA, 2008
2008 Packard Foundation Fellows Meeting, Park City, UT, 2008
SPIE Plasmonics: Nanoimaging, Nanofabrication, and their Applications IV, San Diego, CA, 2008
Solid State Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, New London, NH, 2008
EPSCOR Program Review, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, 2008
Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications Topical Meeting, Boston, MA, 2008
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2008
University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2008
Center for Nanoscale Materials User Facility Meeting, Argonne National Lab, IL, 2008
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008
ACS Spring Meeting, 2008
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2008
JNC-NU Workshop on Advanced Materials, Evanston, IL, 2008
MRS Spring Meeting, 2008
NSF-MEXT (US-Japan) Young Researchers Exchange Symposium, Evanston, IL, 2008
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2008
Indo-US Science and Technology, Bhubaneshwar, India, 2008
African MRS Meeting, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2007
Japan-US Frontiers of Science, Kanagawa, Japan, 2007
University of Northern Iowa, IA, 2007
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2007
West Virginia University, Morgantown, VA, 2007
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2007
Rohm and Haas, Marlborough, MA, 2007
ACS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2007
Electronic Materials Gordon Conference, South Hadley, MA, 2007
Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Conference, Newport, RI, 2007
SPP3, Dijon, France, 2007
Penn State University, University Park, PA, 2007
FNANO07, Snowbird, UT, 2007
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007
MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2007
ACS Spring Meeting, Chicago, IL 2007
NanoManufacturing Conference, Chicago, IL, 2007
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, ID, 2007
US-Africa Workshop on Frontiers in Materials Research and Education, Abuja, Nigeria, 2007
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2006
Purdue University, Indiannpolis, ID, 2006
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2006
Duke University, Durham, NC, 2006
University of Delaware, Delaware, 2006
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
DuPont, 2006
Compton Lectures, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2006
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, 2006
US-Ireland NSF Nanotechnology Workshop, Belfast, Ireland, 2006
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2006
Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL, 2006
CalTech, Pasedena, CA 2006
University of California, San Diego, CA, 2006
ACS Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey, CA, 2006
NCLT Professional Development Workshops in Nanoscale Science, Evanston, IL, 2006
NSF Summer Institute, Evanston, IL, 2006
Plasmonics Gordan Conference, Keene, NH, 2006
Chemistry and Physics of Nanostructure Fabrication, Tilton, NH, 2006
Research Corporation Cottrell Scholars Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2006
German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, 2006
Synergy between Experiment and Computation in Nanoscale Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2006
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2006
University of California at Berkeley, CA, 2006
Northwestern University, Materials Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL, 2006
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2006
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 2006
SME Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
US-China Nanotechnology Workshop, Washington DC, 2006
NSF Workshop on Synthesis of Complex Materials, Oxfordshire, England, 2006
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2006
University of Victoria, British Columbia, 2006
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2006
Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2005
Columbia University, New York, NY, 2005
City College of New York, New York, NY, 2005
Foresight Institute, San Francisco, CA 2005
Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey, CA 2005
ACS Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 2005
Materials World Network: The Next Ten Years, Cancun, Mexico, 2005
NCLT Professional Development Workshops in Nanoscale Science, Evanston, IL, 2005
ASME Nano Bootcamp, Washington, DC, 2005
NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials, Evanston, IL 2005
NNI: X-ray and Neutron Scattering in Nanoscience, Washington, DC, 2005
Emerging Technologies for Bio and Chemical Sensing, Washington, DC, 2005
3rd International Workshop to Develop a Global Nanotechnology Network, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2005
CERC3 - Young Chemists Workshop, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2005
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, 2005
Undergraduate Chemistry Council, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2005
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Chicago Section, Chicago, IL, 2005
GDEST: Sensors and Sensor Systems: A US-Japan Dialogue, Tsukuba, Japan, 2005
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2004
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
Argonne National Labs, Argonne, IL, 2004
Packard Foundation Fellows, Monterey, CA, 2004
Northwestern University, MRC and ESAM, Evanston, IL, 2004
German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, Munich, Germany, 2004
ASME Nano Bootcamp, Evanston, IL, 2004
University of Chicago, MRSEC, Chicago, IL, 2004
UK-US Frontiers of Science Symposium, Cambridge, England, 2004
US-China Nanotechnology Forum, Beijing, China, 2004
International Nanotech Workshop, Venice, Italy, 2004
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 2004
ACS Chicago section meeting, Chicago, IL, 2004
University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, 2003
Northwestern University, Physics Department, Evanston, IL, 2003
1st Korea-US NanoForum, Seoul, Korea, 2003
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003
ASME Nano Bootcamp, Evanston, IL, 2003
77 th ACS Colloid and Surface Chemistry Symposium, Atlanta, GA, 2003
