Jack Pladziewicz is the Interim Vice President of Research Corporation. He came to Research Corporation as a program officer in April, 2003 from the chemistry department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he is Professor Emeritus, was on the faculty from 1973-2002 and served as department chair from 1999-2002. He received a BS degree in chemistry from Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a Ph.D. with specialization in inorganic chemistry working with James Espenson from Iowa State University and did postdoctoral research with Henry Taube and Eugene van Tamelen at Stanford University.
He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney and Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Visiting Professor at the Chemical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Department of Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis; and Visiting Scientist, Stanford Research Institute.
He has served on the Research Corporation Grants Advisory Committee, the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board, Committee of Visitors Triennial Oversight Review of NSF Chemistry Division, and as a consultant to industry and academia. His research interests include coordination chemistry, electron transfer reactions, and bioinorganic chemistry, with particular interest in radical cation-neutral reactions and metalloprotein electron transfer. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.chem.uwec.edu/pladzijr/index.html
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