Eric V. Anslyn

Eric V. Anslyn received his PhD in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology under the direction of Robert Grubbs. After completing post-doctoral work with Ronald Breslow at Columbia University, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he became a Full Professor in 1999, and is now the Welch Regents Chair, a University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and an HHMI Professor. He currently has over 40 patents and nearly 400 papers, and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Young Investigator, the Izatt Christensen Award, the James Flack Norris Award, and he was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Science.. His primary research is in physical organic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry, with specific interests in catalysts, receptors, single and multi-analyte sensors, and information storage using sequence-defined polymeric materials.