Joseph Thomas Hupp (born on March 23, 1957) is an American chemist. He is the Morrison Professor of Chemistry in the

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Early life and education

Hupp was born on March 23, 1957, in Cuba, New York. He attended Cuba Central School and played on their football team. As a senior, he placed 14th among 114 high school students who took the Nevins Mathematics Contest at

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and was awarded automatic admission. Despite this, he attended Houghton College for his

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degree and

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for his PhD.

Career

Following his PhD, Hupp became an associate research assistant at the

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from 1984 to 1986. In his final year, Hupp earned the 1986 Presidential Young Investigator Awards and joined the faculty of chemistry at

(NU). As a professor, Hupp collaborated with five NU researchers to attempt to create artificial enzymes to act as catalysts in chemical reactions. Following this, he was elected a fellow of

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and Materials Research Society for enabling discoveries in the synthesis of porous materials. He also received the

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's 2014 Stephanie L. Kwolek Award for "key enabling discoveries in the design and syntheses of functional materials relevant to energy science applications, including light-to-electric energy conversion and supramolecular framework-based sensing, sieving, gas storage and catalysis." In 2018, Hupp received the George S. Hammond Award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society for "his range of contributions from fundamental work on light-induced electron-transfer reactions to elucidation of mechanisms for molecule-powered solar cells to design and synthesis of new classes of light-harvesting and photocatalytic materials." The following year, he was appointed ''

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''’s Editorial Board Chair and was listed amongst the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers from

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. As the Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Hupp was elected to the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hupp, Joseph Living people 1957 births People from Cuba, New York 20th-century American chemists 21st-century American chemists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Northwestern University faculty Michigan State University alumni Houghton University alumni