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Sam Johnson is an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, where he began his independent research program in 2002. He obtained his B.Sc. in applied chemistry at McMaster prior to graduate work at the University of British Columbia. This was followed by a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous research ventures cover a plethora of different areas of inorganic chemistry, which include theoretical studies of electron-pair localization, superacid catalysis, dinitrogen activation, and organometallic coupling reactions of alkynes. His current research program is focused on inert-bond activation and ligand design for the assembly of functional polymetallic clusters.


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Dr. George Shimizu University of Calgary
George Shimizu is originally from Winnipeg. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Winnipeg and a Ph.D. from Steve Loeb at the University of Windsor (1993) on macrocyclic coordination chemistry. He was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow with Fraser Stoddart at the University of Birmingham (95-96) in supramolecular chemistry and a Research Associate (97-98) with John Ripmeester at the Steacie Institute of the NRC working on inorganic materials. George has been at the University of Calgary since 1998 researching metal organic framework (MOF) solids. The group pursues two main targets for these porous solids: gas separations, particularly CO2 for carbon capture, and new MOF-based proton conducting materials as hydrogen and methanol fuel cell membranes. George has received a Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award, a Research Corporation Research Innovation Award and the 2008 Strem Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry.
Dr. Sam Johnson University of Windsor
Sam Johnson is an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, where he began his independent research program in 2002. He obtained his B.Sc. in applied chemistry at McMaster prior to graduate work at the University of British Columbia. This was followed by a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous research ventures cover a plethora of different areas of inorganic chemistry, which include theoretical studies of electron-pair localization, superacid catalysis, dinitrogen activation, and organometallic coupling reactions of alkynes. His current research program is focused on inert-bond activation and ligand design for the assembly of functional polymetallic clusters.
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