Jillian M. Buriak

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Professor Jillian Buriak was born in Toronto, Canada in 1967. She received her A. B. degree from Harvard University in 1990 and pursued undergraduate research with Professor Andrew R. Barron. After teaching high school sciences in the Fiji Islands on a Catherine Innes Ireland Fellowship from Harvard-Radcliffe College, she commenced her doctoral studies in 1991 with Professor John A. Osborn at the Universit� Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. After completion of her Ph.D. in 1995 she carried out two years of post-doctoral research with Professor M. Reza Ghadiri at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. In 1997 she joined the faculty at Purdue University as an assistant professor of inorganic chemistry, and was promoted to associate professor in 2001. Her research interests lie in the fields of semiconductor surface chemistry, nanolithography and other nanopatterning technologies, organometallic chemistry and asymmetric catalysis.