CHESTERTOWN, MD—J.D. Tovar, professor in the Chemistry
Department at Johns Hopkins University, will speak on “Controlling energy migration through
‘plastic’ organic electronic materials” at Washington College on Monday, October 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Litrenta
Lecture Hall, Toll Science Center.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is
sponsored by the Washington College Chemistry Department as part of National
Chemistry Week.
Tovar joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in
2005. His current research focuses on charge transport through synthetically
complex organic materials, with interests in small molecule, polymeric and
bioelectronic supramolecular systems.
He completed his undergraduate training in chemistry at
the University of California, Los Angeles, where he performed research with
Julius Glater and Menachem Elimelech in Civil Engineering and later with Yves
Rubin in Chemistry. He then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to pursue a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. There, he worked for Timothy M. Swager and developed his
thesis on the development of new synthetic methods to construct large
thiophene-based polycyclic aromatics.
Before joining Hopkins, he was a Baxter Postdoctoral
Fellow in the labs of Samuel I. Stupp and Mark C. Hersam at Northwestern
University, where he researched self-assembling biomaterials with useful
electrical properties.
Click here for more on Dr. Tovar’s research.
