Main Group Element Award 2007 Winner

For his outstanding contributions to the chemistry of boron and its organometallic compounds and to their applications in the development of catalysts and chromophore.

Todd Marder delivered his lecture associated with this award at the Dalton Division awards symposium in Liverpool on 29 January 2009.

About the Winner

Todd Marder received his B.Sc. from M.I.T. in 1976, and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1981, and was a University of California Regents Intern Fellow. 

He moved to Bristol to postdoc with Gordon Stone and, in 1983, to Wilmington as a Visiting Research Scientist at DuPont Central Research. In 1985, he joined the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1989 and Professor in 1993. 

In 1995, he received the Rutherford Memorial Medal for Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada. In 1997, he accepted the Chair in Inorganic Chemistry at Durham University. He was awarded Sir Derman Christopherson Foundation and Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowships. 

He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Newcastle and Bristol, Universite de Rennes 1, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is currently an Honorary Professor at Newcastle, and an Adjuct Professor at HKUST,  and a member of the editorial boards of Organometallics, the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, and the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 

He has published over 200 papers and presented over 250 invited lectures on organometallic and organo-main group chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, optical materials, liquid crystals, crystal engineering and bioactive chemistry.