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Dr. Stuart Rowan |
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Stuart is currently an Associate Professor in Macromolecular Science and Engineering. He has adjunct appointments in both Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University and also serves as a Research Scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. Stuart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1969 but grew up in Troon, Aryshire on the west coast of Scotland. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry in 1991 from the University of Glasgow and stayed there for his Ph.D. where he worked on Supramolecular Crystal Engineering of Inclusion Compounds in the laboratory of Dr David D. MacNicol, receiving his Ph.D. in 1995. In 1994 he moved to the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge to work with Prof. Jeremy K. M. Sanders FRS. There he carried out research on the development of Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries focusing on the transesterification reaction. In 1996 he was appointed a Research Associate of Girton College, Cambridge. In 1998 he moved across the Atlantic (and the continental U.S.) to continue his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Sir J. Fraser Stoddart FRS at the University of California, Los Angeles. While in Southern California he developed numerous new methods for the construction of interlocked species, specifically using dynamic covalent chemistry and “surrogate” stoppers. In 1999 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor to the Department of Macromolecular Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2005. His research interests focus on the potential of dynamic chemistry (covalent and non-covalent) in the construction and properties of polymeric materials. His group works on supramolecular polymers, self-healing materials, metal-containing polymers, gels, biomaterials, surface assembly and developing new synthetic methods for the construction of complex polymeric architectures. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Macromolecules, andregularly assists as referee for about two dozen Scientific Journals and Funding Organizations. He also sits on the ACS PMSE council. He is an NSF-CAREER awardee and has published over 70 scientific papers, book chapters and reviews. |
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