Professor Doug Gin

Professor Douglas L. Gin

Professor
Department of Chemistry

University of Colorado Boulder
Cristol Chemistry Building, room 160
215 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309

Phone: 303-735-1107
E-mail:  douglas.gin@colorado.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology. June 1993 
Research Advisor: Professor Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2005)
Thesis: A New Route to Poly(p-phenylene): Stereoregular Precursors via Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Polymerization

B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry, University of British Columbia. May 1988 
Research Advisor: Professor Elmer A. Ogryzlo 
Undergraduate Thesis: A Study of Microwave Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond Films. 

Research and Related Work Experience

  • 2018 - present Professor of Chemistry, CU Boulder
  • 2005 - 2018 Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, and of Chemistry & Biochemistry, CU Boulder
  • 2001 - 2005 Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, and of Chemistry & Biochemistry, CU Boulder
  • 1994-2001 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. 
  • Dec. 1992 - Apr. 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. [Advisor: Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000)]
  • Oct. 1991 Visiting Scientist: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA.
  • 1990, 1991 Visiting Scientist: ICI Chemicals and Polymers Ltd., Runcorn, UK

Awards

  • 2013 - Ind. & Eng. Chem. (I&EC) Division Fellow (American Chemical Society) (elected)
  • 2011 - Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. (PMSE) Fellow (American Chemical Society) (elected)
  • 2008 - CU Boulder College of Engineering Faculty Research Award
  • 2007 - University of Colorado at Boulder Inventor of the Year Award
  • 2007 - Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work Award
  • 2006 - American Chemical Society Colorado Section Award
  • 2002 - CU Boulder Residence Life Teaching Excellence Award
  • 1999 - American Chemical Society PMSE/YCC Young Contributor to Polymer Materials Science
  • 1999-2001 - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
  • 1997 - Research Corporation Cottrell Teaching/Scholar Award
  • 1996-2001 - National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • 1996-2000 - 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
  • 1996 - Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, UC Berkeley
  • 1992-1994 - NSERC Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 1992 - Finalist, Sherwin-Williams Graduate Student Award Competition, American Chemical Society POLY Division
  • 1988-1992 - NSERC Canada 1967 Science and Engineering Graduate Scholarship