Robert Flowers

Robert Flowers is a native of Easton, Pa, USA. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry from East Stroudsburg University and the Ph.D. degree from Lehigh University. He carried out postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory of Ned Arnett at Duke University where he worked on developing calorimetric and electrochemical methods for the determination of the heterolytic and homolytic bond dissociation energies of molecules and the thermochemistry of the mechanism of action of vitamin K in collaboration with Paul Dowd at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1994, he moved to the University of Toledo. Afterwards, he moved to Texas Tech University in 2001 and to Lehigh University as a Chair of the Department of Chemistry in 2004. He was also employed as the Danser Distinguished Faculty Chair in Chemistry at Lehigh University in 2008. He has given over 50 invited US and international lectures on his research. Professor Flowers' research group is interested in a wide range of problems including mechanistic analysis and synthetic development of Sm(II) and Ce(IV) reagents, calorimetric analysis of protein-ligand interactions, ion transport and molecular recognition, and the development of novel protein renaturation reagents.

Biography Updated on 12 August 2008

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