Biography

Dr. Albert Padwa

Born in New York City
Columbia University, B.A.
Columbia University, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Experience

    • Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Ohio State University, 1963-1967
    • Associate Professor of Chemistry – SUNY at Buffalo, 1967-1969
    • Professor of Chemistry – State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969-1979
    • William P. Timmie Professor of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., 1979-
    • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow – 1968-1970
    • Consultant, Union Carbide Corporation, Charleston, West Virginia, 1965-1978
    • Consultant, Speciality Chemical Division, Pfizer Chemical, 1986-1987
    • NIH Special Senior Research Fellow, 1972 (Harvard University)
    • NATO Senior Research Fellow, 1973 (E.T.H., Zurich, Switzerland)
    • Medicinal Chemistry A Study Section, National Institutes of Health (1976-1980)
    • Participant in the U.S.-India Exchange of Scientist Program (1976-1977)
    • Member of Editorial Board of Reviews of Chemical Intermediates
    • Executive Committee – Organic Division of the Interamerican Photochem. Soc.1977-1979
    • Alternate Councilor, Organic Division, American Chemical Society, (1978-1985)
    • Editor-at-Large- Organic Chemistry Marcel Dekker, Inc., (1978-1991),
    • Visiting Professor-University Claude Bernard – Lyons, France, 1978
    • Ad Hoc Task Force to Monitor the Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1979-1981
    • Guest Editor, Tetrahedron Symposium in Print-“Recent Advances in Organic Photochemistry”
    • Editor – Monograph on 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions – Wiley Inc. 1984
    • Organizing Committee – IX IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, 1982
    • Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1981-1985
    • John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1981-1982
    • Sigma Xi Award, 1981, Atlanta Section
    • ACS Awards Committee for the Selection of James Flack Norris Award, 1982-1984
    • Visiting Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1982
    • Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1982
    • Chairman – Gordon Research Conference on Heterocycles,1983
    • Chairman – NSF Workshop on Reactive Intermediates,1981-1983
    • Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1983-1985
    • Visiting Professor, University of Wurzburg, West Germany, 1983-1985
    • Plenary Lecturer – 28th National Organic Symposium, 1983
    • 1983 Herty Medalist of the Southeast American Chemical Society
    • Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1984-1987
    • Japan Society Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow, 1984
    • Visiting Professor – University of Peking (China), 1984
    • Chairman Organic Division – American Chemical Society, 1985-1986
    • Senior Advisory Editor, JAI Press, 1983-1999
    • ACS Awards Committee for the Selection of Arthur C. Cope Awardee 1986-1987
    • USA-Israeli Binational Awardee, 1985-1994
    • NATO Research Awardee, 1984-1989, University of Catania, Italy
    • Recipient of Emory University Scholar-Teacher Award, 1988
    • ACS Awards Committee for the Nobel Laureate Signature Award 1989-1992
    • Ad Hoc Task Force to Monitor the Journal of American Chemical Society, 1990
    • ACS Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board, 1990-1992
    • NATO Research Awardee, 1990-1994, Lougborough University, England
    • US-UK NSF Cooperative Research Award, 1990
    • 1990 Southern Chemist Award, Memphis Section of the American Chemical Society
    • Visting Professor, Imperial College of Chemistry, London, England 1990
    • Symposium Chairman, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Washington 1990 ACS Meeting
    • Fulbright Hays Fellowship, Great Britain 1990-1992
    • Rayson Huang Visiting Lectureship, University of Hong Kong, 1993
    • Editorial Advisory Board, Heterocyclic Communications, 1994-present
    • 1994 Recipient of the Florida Award, Florida Sections of the American Chemical Society
    • President of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1994-1996
    • Executive Advisory Board of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1996-1998
    • Advisory Board of Electronic Conference on Trends in Organic Chemistry, 1995-1997
    • ACS Awards Committee for the Selection of the Pure Chemistry Awardee, 1995-1997
    • 2nd Michigan Chemistry Community Tour Lecturer, 1995
    • Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1996-2000
    • Volume Editor for Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II, Elsevier Press, 1996
    • BASF Visiting Guest Professor, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; 1996
    • 1996 Recipient of the Stone Award, Carolina Piedmont Section of the American Chemical Society
    • Scientific Advisory Board for the Internet Journal of Chemistry; 1997-present
    • Chemical Consultant — Procter & Gamble; 1997
    • Symposium Chairman, Organometallic/Heterocyclic Chemistry, Boston 1998 ACS Meeting
    • Expert Chemical Witness for Williams and Connolly Law Offices, 1997-present
    • 1999 Senior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry from the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemists
    • Honorary Fellow of the Florida Center for Heterocyclic Compounds, 1999-2004
    • Editorial Advisory Board, Organic Letters, 1999-present
    • American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2000
    • Symposium Co-chairman, Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2000 Pacific Basin ACS Meeting, Honolulu
    • Novartis Chemistry Lectureship, 2001
    • Editor-Monograph on 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions-Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds-Wiley, 2002
    • Volume Editor for Science of Synthesis (SOS); Vol 27, Compounds with Two Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds; Thieme
    • Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany 2002-2004
    • Associate Editor of Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2002-2017
    • Fellow of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Award, 2003
    • 2004 Robert Lutz Lecturer at the University of Virginia, Charlottsville, Va,
    • 2004 Novartis Central European Chemistry Lectureship (Prague, Budapest Bratislava)
    • 3M Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 2005
    • Member of Editorial Board of Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry; Springer-Verlag, Germany; 2005-2008
    • Wilsmore Fellow in School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia 2005
    • Visiting Fellow in Research School of Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2005
    • Volume Editor for Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III. Elsevier Press, 2005-2007
    • 2006 Leroy H. Klemm Lecturer at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
    • Arkivoc Control Board Member; 2006-Present
    • Visiting Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 2006
    • Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2008
    • Board of Consulting Editors; Elsevier (Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters), 2008
    • Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2009
    • Evaluating Committee for Chemistry Department at Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2009
    • University of Sherbrooke 2010 Boehringer Ingelheim Distinguished Lecturer, Canada
    • 2010 American Chemistry Society ACS Fellow
    • Member of Editorial Board of Heterocyclic Communications, De Gruyterc Publishers
    • Member of Editorial Board of Letters in Organic Chemistry,Bentham Science Publishers
    • Plenary Lecturer 10th International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan, 2013
    • Plenary lecturer at the Heron6 Conference on Reactive Intermediates, Australia, 2013
    • Distinguished Emory Emeritus Award for 2014
    • Editorial Board for Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2015
    • Plenary Lecturer ISHC Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Santa Barbara, Ca, 2015
    • Plenary Lecturer Kost Conference on Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia, 2015
    • Plenary Lecturer Banf Conference on Synthetic Chemistry, Banf, Canada, 2015
    • Kost Medal for 100th Anniversary, Moscow, Russia, 2016
    • Emory University Emeritus College’s Bianchi Excellence Award winner 2016
    • Associate Editor for Organic Reactions, 2017-present
    • Chair of Executive Committee for Flohet University of Florida , 2016-2018
    • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, plenary speaker at QuimiUNAM-2018
    • Fulbright-Hays US Student Screening Committee, 2018-2020

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