Professional Positions

Professor & Tier I Canada Research Chair in Materials Science ñ Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University (2004-present, 2006-on for the Tier I CRC)
Executive Director ñ 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University (2007-present)
Founder & Chief Technology Officer ñ SWITCH Technologies, Inc. (2007-present)
Founder & Director ñ NanoCommunity Canada Research Network (2007-present)
Affiliated Investigator ñ Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (2005-present)
Director, Molecular Systems ñ 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University (2004-2007)
Associate Faculty Member ñ Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University (2003-present)
Associate Professor & Tier II Canada Research Chair in Materials Science ñ Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University (2001-2004)
Assistant Professor ñ Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta (1996-2001)
NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow ñ Laboratoire de Chimie Supramoleculaire, UniversitÈ Louis Pasteur (1994-1996)

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (1994)
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON B.Sc. Chemistry and Biochemistry (1989)

Awards and Honours

Canadian Whoís Who Biographee (2007)
Canadaís Top 40 Under 40 (2006)
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Materials Science (2006-on)
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2005)
INNOVATEC Guest Chair ñ Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/Universitaet Regensburg (2004)
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Materials Science (2001-2005)
ICNC/UPAC Travel Award (2001)
Delta Chi Teacherís Excellence Award (2001)
Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award (2000)
Ichikizaki Award for Young Chemists (1999)
Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation (1998)

Other Professional Positions, Memberships and Distinctions

Editorial Board, Dyes and Pigments, Elsevier (2008-on)
CONSOLIDER International Scientific Committee, Ministerio de EducatiÛn y Ciencia (Spain) (2007-2008)
Chair, Canada Research Chairs Program's Interdisciplinary Adjudication Committee (2008-2009)
Canada Research Chairs Program's Interdisciplinary Adjudication Committee (2007-2008) Member,
Steering Committee, British Columbia Nanotechnology Alliance (2004-2006)
Chair, International Scientific Committee, International Symposia on Organic Photochromism (2004-2007) Member,
International Scientific Committee, International Symposia on Organic Photochromism (2003-present)

Involvement in Conferences, Meetings and Workshops

Co-Chair and Host for the 2002 CSC Young Organic Faculty Workshop, Victoria (May 2002)
Co-Chair and Host for the 2005 Pacifichem meeting ñ Symposium on Molecular Switching (December 2005)
Member of the National Organizing Committee for the joint symposia on Macrocyclic Chemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry, Victoria (June 2006)
Chair and Host for the 2007 International Symposia on Organic Photochromism, Vancouver (2007)