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In Brief

Education: I started out at Caltech (California institute of technology) working with Robert H. Grubbs on olefin metathesis, a reaction I still study in my independent research. After obtaining my BS in 1994, I left the West coast for the East coast and joined the group of G. M. Whitesides at Harvard University. I obtained a M.S. (1997) and a Ph. D. (1999) working on "Order and disorder: Mesoscale self-assembly and waves". I then left the East coast to come back to the West coast for a post-doc at Stanford university with Robert M. Waymouth (2000-2002) working on polymers.

Professional Appointments: I held post-doc positions both at Harvard (1999) and Stanford (2000-2002) Universities. In 2002 I joined the faculty at the University of Iowa as an assistant professor. I started my independent research and have seen the "first generation Bowdenites"  (as my students like to call themselves) flourish into great chemists.

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Contact Information

University of Iowa

Department of Chemistry

423K Chemistry building

Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: (319) 335-1198

Email:ned-bowden@uiowa.edu