Dr. Joseph Francisco, President Elect of ACS
Dec. 8, 2009
Dr. Joseph Francisco has received the William E. Moore Distinguished Professor Award. He will give a lecture on Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. in room W140 of the Benson Science Building. The lecture will cover the subject of HOCO Radical Chemistry.
Joseph S. Francisco completed his undergraduate studies in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin with honors, and he received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. Francisco spent 1983-1985 as a Research Fellow at Cambridge University in England, and following that he returned to MIT as a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1986 he was appointed Assistant Professor at Wayne State University. In 1991 he was a Visiting Associate in Planetary Science at California Institute of Technology. He accepted an appointment as Professor of Chemistry and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University in January, 1995, and in 2006 was appointed as the William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science and Chemistry at Purdue University. He served as President for the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) from 2005-2007. In 2008 he was elected to the Presidential succession of the American Chemical Society. He will serve as President-Elect for 2009, President for 2010, and is Immediate Past President for 2011.
He has published over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of atmospheric chemistry, chemical kinetics, quantum chemistry, laser photochemistry and spectroscopy. He was appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to be member of the Naval Research Advisory Committee for the Department of Navy (1994-1996). He has served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Spectrochimica Acta (Part A); Advances in Environmental Research; Journal of Molecular Structure Theochem; and the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He is a co-author of the textbook Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics, published by Prentice-Hall. Professor Francisco has received numerous national and international honors for his academic accomplishments. He was recently awarded an Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award by the German government, as well as being appointed a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been appointed to and served on committees for the National Research Council, National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.