Gerald J. Meyer is an active researcher and professor of
inorganic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subjects of organic chemistry. The distinction between the two disci ...
at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was previously the Bernard N. Baker Chair In Chemistry at
Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include inorganic
photochemistry with emphasis on solar energy,
using interfacial electron transfer processes
and dye-sensitized solar cells.
Education
Meyer earned a B.S. in chemistry from the
University at Albany, SUNY in 1985.
In 1989 he earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he worked with Arthur B. Ellis.
From 1989-1991, he did postdoctoral work at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Thomas J. Meyer.
Career
In 1991, Meyer joined
Johns Hopkins University.
Meyer was a director of the
NSF
NSF may stand for:
Political organizations
*National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party
*NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party
*National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...
Collaborative Research Activities in Environmental Science Center (CRAEMS) from 2002-2007.
Meyer held the
Bernard N. Baker
Bernard Nadal Baker (11 May 1854 – 20 December 1918) was a shipping magnate from Baltimore, Maryland.
Baker descended from generations of wealthy Baltimore merchants and glass manufacturers. He studied in Philadelphia with the geologist and chem ...
Chair In Chemistry at
Johns Hopkins University from 2009 to 2013, and served as Chairman of the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins University from 2011 to 2013.
As of January 2014, he became Professor in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He is the Director of the University of North Carolina's Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC), an
Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the
United States Department of Energy.
He has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the
American Chemical Society journals ''
Langmuir'', ''
Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subjects of organic chemistry. The distinction between the two disci ...
'', ''
Chemistry of Materials
Chemistry of Materials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1989 by the American Chemical Society. ''Chemistry of Materials'' is currently indexed in: Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), SCOPUS, EBSCOhost, British Library, Swetswi ...
''. He is the Associate Editor of ''
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
''ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 2009 by the American Chemical Society. Originally published monthly, the journal became biweekly in 2013 and weekly in 2015. The current editor-in- ...
'' (introduced in 2008)
and the Deputy Editor of ''ACS Applied Energy Materials'' (introduced in 2018).
Patents
* Chemical Sensing with Photoluminescent Semiconductor Materials. Meyer, G.J.; Lisensky, G.C.; Ellis, A.B. Serial No. 4,752,588. issued 1988.
* Solar Cells Incorporating Light Harvesting Arrays. Meyer, G.J.; Lindsey, J.S. Serial No. 6,596,935 issued 2003.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American chemists
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
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