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Professor Todd Marder
Todd B. Marder received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976) where he worked with Professor Alan Davison, FRS and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (1981), where he was a University of California Regents Intern Fellow working with Professor Fred Hawthorne. Following postdoctoral research with Professor F. Gordon A. Stone, FRS at the University of Bristol in England, he spent two years as a Visiting Research Scientist at DuPont Central Research in Wilmington, DE, USA, where he developed one of the first catalytic processes for the intermolecular hydroacylation of alkenes. He joined the faculty at the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1985, and in 1995 was the recipient of the Rutherford Memorial Medal for Chemistry of the Royal Society of Canada. He moved to the University of Durham in England in 1997 to take a Chair in Inorganic Chemistry. He has carried out pioneering studies on metal boryl complexes and diboron reagents, and their role in catalyzed borylation processes, often involving fruitful collaborations with Tom Baker (then at DuPont), Nick Norman (Newcastle and Bristol Universities), and Zhenyang Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and on the use of 3-coordinate boron as a -acceptor in nonlinear optical materials. In 2008, he was the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Main Group Element Chemistry. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Inorganic Chemistry, Crystal Engineering, Polyhedron, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Organometallics, and Chemistry Central Journal, and is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the IMEBORON conference series, and the International Organizing Committee of the EUROBORON conference series. He has held Visiting Professorships in the UK, France, Hong Kong and Japan, and currently holds an Adjunct Professorship in Chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and an Honorary Professorship at Newcastle University through the North-East England Stem Cell Institute. He has published over 225 papers and presented over 275 invited lectures worldwide. His diverse research interests include synthesis, structure, bonding and reactivity of organometallic and metal-boron compounds, homogeneous catalysis, small molecule triggers of stem cell differentiation, luminescence, nonlinear optics, liquid crystals, and crystal engineering.
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