Jeffrey Moore

Education

Jeffrey Moore received his Bachelor of Surgery in chemistry (1984) and Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering with Samuel Stupp (1989), both from the University of Illinois.

Career

He then went to Caltech as an National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow working with Robert Grubbs. In 1990, he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then in 1993 returned to the University of Illinois where he is currently Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, as well as the Murchison-Mallory Chair in the Department of Chemistry. In 1995, he became a part-time Beckman Institute faculty member under the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures research theme.

He currently serves as lead Principal Investigator on four grants including federal (one MURI) and corporate grants.

He is also co-Principal Investigator on four additional grants working with colleagues across many disciplines. He has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Chemical Society.

He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of American Chemical Society since July of 1999 and Advisor of the University of Illinois’ Society of Postdoctoral Scholars since January 2011. He has pioneered the development of online organic chemistry courses and is preparing to offer a two-semester organic chemistry sequence as a massive open online course through Coursera.

He has over 300 published journal articles covering topics from technology in the classroom to self-healing polymers, mechanoresponsive materials and shape-persistent macrocycles including publications in Macromolecules, the Journal of Chemical Education, Advanced Materials and the Journal of Materials Chemistry.

" research involves the synthesis and study of large organic molecules and the discovery of new polymeric materials. Most projects relate to one of three areas: new macromolecular architectures and their supramolecular organization. Responsive polymers including self-healing materials.

Mechanochemical transduction.

In general, our group uses the tools of synthetic and physical organic chemistry to address problems at the interface of chemistry and materials science." Moore Group Website with Areas of Research

Some of his recent publications include papers and reviews on

Self-healing materials

Mechanochemistry

New Macromolecular Architectures

and energy storage materials.

Achievements

• Fellow, American Chemical Society Fellow, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching LAS Dean"s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Alpha Epilon Delta Pre-Health Honors Society Professor of the Year Award Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Alfred P. Sloan Fellow American College of Surgeons Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.