Dr. Ayusman Sen
asen@psu.eduEducation:
1970: B.Sc. (Honours), University of Calcutta, India
1973: M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
1978: Ph.D., University of Chicago, USA
Career:
1978-79: Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, USA
1979-84: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, USA
1984-89: Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, USA
1989-10: Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, USA
2004-09: Head, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, USA
2010- : Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Selected Honors and Fellowships:
1967-74: National Science Talent Search Scholarship, Government of India
1982-84: Young Investigator Award, Chevron Research Company
1984-88: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1987-88: Paul J. Flory Sabbatical Award, IBM
1993: Imperial Oil Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto
1999-00: Iberdrola Visiting Professor, University of Valladolid, Spain
2000: Keynote Speaker IUPAC International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai, China
2002: Gerhard Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago
2003: Faculty Scholar Medal, Pennsylvania State University
2005: Plenary Lecture, Volkswagen Conference on Nanotechnology in Science, Economy,
and Society, Marburg, Germany
2005: Coochbehar Professorship, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
2005: Plenary Lecture, IUPAC Workshop on Advanced Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2005: Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2008: Plenary Lecturer, International Workshop on Defining Issues in Biofuels R&D, Italy
2009: Invited Distinguished Scientist, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
2010: Adjunct Professor, International Centre for Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
2010: Plenary Lecturer, Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, Spain
2011: Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI): News Coverage
Student Honors:
1997: Student Award, International Precious Metal Institute (to Smita Kacker)
2000: Student Award, International Precious Metal Institute (to April Hennis)
2002: Student Award, International Precious Metal Institute (to Joseph Remias)
2005: Young Investigator Award, American Chemical Society: Division of Inorganic Chemistry (to Walter Paxton)
2006: Rustum and Della Roy Innovation In Materials Research Award (to Walter Paxton)
Research Interests:
Synthetic and mechanistic organotransition metal chemistry; homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis; environmental chemistry; polymer chemistry; nanotechnology.