Prof. Robert J. Giliard, Jr.

Novartis Associate Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)

The Ligand Matters: Unusual Strategies Toward the Design of Boron-Doped Molecules and Emissive Materials

Prof. Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. is the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Virginia. He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Clemson University where he was an undergraduate researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Rhett C. Smith. He earned his doctorate in chemistry at The University of Georgia with Prof. Gregory H. Robinson. Gilliard was a Merck Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow where he completed his studies working jointly at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) with Prof. Hansjörg Grützmacher and at Case Western Reserve University with Prof. John Protasiewicz. Gilliard is currently an associate editor at the Journal of the American Chemical Society, has served on editorial advisory board of Angewandte Chemie, and is currently on the advisory board of Chemical Science, Chemical Communications, ChemistryEurope, Chem Catalysis, and Inorganic Chemistry. His awards and honors include: Chemical and Engineering News Talented 12 Scholar, Research Corporation for Science Advancement Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Organometallics Distinguished Author Award, Beckman Young Investigator Award, Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, Lloyd N. Ferguson Award for Excellence in Research, ACS Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry, Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and a NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award.