X-Ray Facility Director

Education

1993 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of California, Davis

Overview

I am fortunate to have a job that I enjoy - most of the time! As Director of the X-Ray Facility in the Chemistry Department at the University of Kentucky, I am involved in virtually all projects that require small-molecule single-crystal structure determination, as well as some that involve general X-ray diffraction. I also teach a course in crystallography (CHE-640) for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, have previously taught the Physical Chemistry lab course (CHE-441G), and deliver guest lectures when asked (e.g., CHE-230, PHY-600). I have served as a co-editor of Acta Crystallographica since 2007, and was appointed as a Main Editor in the summer of 2019. Additionally, I have maintained this X-Ray Facility website, personally hand-coding it since 2002.

Here is a publication list and a CV.

I have written a few tutorials, 'how-to' guides, programs, and scripts to help with crystallographic work. All source code is freely available here on the X-Ray Facility website. If you find any of the material useful, or if you find any errors, please let me know.

Today's day number

Total eclipse of the sun: Princeton, KY 2017/08/21