学 术 讲 座
题 目: Recent Advances in Fused-Ring Metallabenzenes
讲座人: Prof. Leonard James Wright
Professor of Chemistry
University of Auckland
时 间: 06月24日（周六）下午15:30-16:30 （时间调整）
地 点: 卢嘉锡楼202报告厅
欢迎各位老师同学积极参加！
嘉宾介绍：
Name: Leonard James Wright
Academic qualifications
1980, PhD (Chemistry), University of Auckland
1977, MSc(1st Class Hons in Chemistry), University of Auckland
Professional positions held
2015-present Director of the Centre of Green Chemical Science, UoA
2014-2017 Deputy Head of School of Chemical Sciences
2013-present Professor of Chemistry, University of Auckland, NZ
1998-2013 Assoc. Professor, University of Auckland, NZ
1991-1998 Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ
1990-1991 Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1984-1989 Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland, NZ
1981-1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow Stanford University, Stanford, CA,USA
1980-1981 Research Scientist, DSIR, Wellington, NZ
Research speciality
organometallic chemistry, catalysis, coordination chemistry, macrocyclic chemistry, green chemistry, oxidation chemistry.
Professional distinctions and memberships
2015 Director of the Centre of Green Chemical Science, University of Auckland.
2015 PI of Marsden Grant “Water purification using a green science approach.”
2013 Appointed Professor of Chemistry, University of Auckland.
2001 TAPPI Environmental Division Best Paper award at the TAPPI International Environmental, Health and Safety
Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, April, 2001.
2001 PI on Marsden Fund Grant (Organometallic and inorganometallic chemistry of ruthenium and osmium).
2000 Society of Pure and Applied Coord. Chem. of Japan Research Award medal
1999 Co-recipient of 1999 US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
1998 Admitted as a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry
1996 The University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Award
1990 Visiting Professorship, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA
1981 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, Stanford CA
1980 L. H. Briggs memorial prize for best doctoral thesis, 1980
