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 A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

. He was previously the Bernard N. Baker Chair In Chemistry at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. His research interests include inorganic

photochemistry Photochemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light. Generally, this term is used to describe a chemical reaction caused by absorption of ultraviolet (wavelength from 100 to 400 nm), visible light (400–7 ...

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 The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

in 1985. In 1989 he earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

, where he worked with Arthur B. Ellis. From 1989-1991, he did postdoctoral work at the

with Thomas J. Meyer.

Career

In 1991, Meyer joined

. 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 Chair In Chemistry at

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 The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United Stat ...

. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

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 {{US-chemist-stub