Christine Thomas
Ohio State University
Biography
Christine Thomas was born and raised on the East Coast of the United States, in a suburb of Philadelphia. She received her B.S. in chemistry from Lafayette College, completed her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology, and performed postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University. After spending more than 9 years on the faculty at Brandeis University, she joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University, where is currently the Phyllis and Richard Leet Professor of Chemistry.
Her research interests focus on synthetic inorganic, organometallic, and main group chemistry, with an emphasis on bond-activation using Earth abundant metals. She pioneered the field of metal-metal multiple bonding in early/late heterobimetallic compounds and her recent work has uncovered multiple modes of bimetallic cooperativity in these frameworks that enable bond activation and functionalization processes. Ongoing projects in her laboratory involve organometallic catalysis using first row transition metals, ligand design, small molecule activation, electrocatalysis, metal-metal and metal-ligand cooperativity, spectroscopy, magnetism, and computational evaluation of electronic structure and reaction mechanism.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the recipient of many awards including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, the DOE Early Career Award, the Dalton Transactions Lectureship, and selection as an Organometallics fellow. She was as an Associate Editor for Dalton Transactions from 2014-2023 and has served on the Editorial Advisory boards for Dalton Transactions, Chemical Communications, Chemical Science, Inorganic Chemistry, Polyhedron, and Inorganic Syntheses. She was Chair of the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry and Co-Chair of the 2024 North American Silicon Symposium, and served as 2020 Chair of the Organometallic Chemistry subdivision of the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry.
RSC journal affiliations
Editor-in-Chief, Dalton Transactions