CURRICULUM VITAE:  ALAN H. COWLEY

Alan Herbert Cowley was born in Manchester, England.  He was educated at the University of Manchester, England, where he received the following degrees:  Bachelor of Science with Honors in Chemistry in 1955, Master of Science in 1956, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1958.  He was a Postdoctoral Fellow, and later an Instructor at the University of Florida during the period 1958-1960.  During the years 1960-1961 he was a Technical Officer with the Exploratory Group of Imperial Chemical Industries (Billingham Division), England.  From 1962 to 1988 he was at The University of Texas at Austin, where he held the following positions:  Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1962-1967, Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1967-1970, Professor of Chemistry, 1970-1984, George W. Watt Centennial Professor of Chemistry, 1984-1988.  From 1988-1989, he was the Sir Edward Frankland Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College, London, U.K.  He returned to the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and currently holds the Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry. 

Awards

• Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Main-Group Element Chemistry, 1980
• Centenary Medal and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1986
• American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Award, 1986
• Stiefvater Memorial Award and Lectureship, University of Nebraska, 1987
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (Britain’s National Academy), 1988
• Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists, 1994
• von Humboldt Prize, 1996
• Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.  Decoration awarded by the French Government, 1997
• Honorary Doctorate, University of Bordeaux I, 2003
• Elected a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2004
• The University Co-operative Society Career Research Excellence Award, 2006
• C. N. R. Rao Award and Lecture, New Delhi, India, 2007
• Elected a Corresponding Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 2007
• Elected a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2007
• 2009 American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of
       Inorganic Chemistry

Other Honors

• Dalton Chemical Scholar, University of Manchester, 1956-1958
• Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Fellowship, 1973
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976-1977
• Jeremy I. Musher Memorial Lectureship.  The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1979
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Inorganic Chemistry, 1979-1983
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Chemical Reviews, 1984-1988
• Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Inorganic Chemistry, 1983
• Appointed to the Board of Inorganic Syntheses, 1983-.  Editor-in-Chief of Volume 31
• Elected to Council of Gordon Research Conferences, 1984-1987
• College of Natural Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence, 1984
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Polyhedron, 1984-1998
• Mobay Lecturer, University of New Hampshire, 1985
• Karcher Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, 1985
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1986-1991
• Elected Councilor, American Chemical Society, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, 1986-1989
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1987-
• Appointed to the American Chemical Society Committee on Divisional Activities, 1987-1989
• Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, 1987
• Appointed to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Chemical Sciences Review Panel, 1987-
      1990
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Organometallics, 1988-1991
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Progress in Inorganic Chemistry, 1988-
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Heteroatom Chemistry, 1988-1996
• Elected to the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences, 1989-1998
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, 1989 -
• Irvine Lecturer, St. Andrews University, Scotland, 1989
• Fischel Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1991
• Frontiers of Science Lecturer, Wayne State University, 1991
• Appointed by Governor Richards of Texas to the Executive Board of Texas Science and Mathematics Renaissance Centers, 1991-93
• Baxter Lecturer, Northern Illinois University, 1992
• Appointed to the Scientific Committee of the European Journal of Solid State and Inorganic Chemistry, 1992-8.
• Co-Chairman, First Gordon Research Conference on Science Education, 1992
• Frontiers in Materials Science Lecturer, University of Iowa, 1993
• Elected Vice-Chair, Gordon Research Conferences Board of Trustees, 1993
• Elected Chair, Gordon Research Conferences Board of Trustees, 1994-95
• Inaugural Etter Memorial Lecturer, University of Minnesota, 1995
• President, International Council on Main Group Chemistry, 1997-98
• Appointed to the International Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions, 1997-2000
• Appointed Institut Universitaire de France Professor, 1999
• Appointed to the Science and Engineering Advisory Board of ORFID, Inc., 2004
• Appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Jordanian Journal of Chemistry, 2004
• Gauss Professorship, Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 2006
• F. G. A. Stone Lectureship, University of Bristol, U.K., 2007.

Research Interests

(1) Main group chemistry
(2) Organometallic chemistry
(3) Catalysis
(4) Precursors to electronic materials
(5) Polymer chemistry
(6) Environmental chemistry

He is the author of over 500 publications.