Biography
Professor James M. Lisy received his B.S. degree from Iowa State University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981 and spent his career investigating intermolecular interactions in neutral and charged molecular clusters. After 30 years, he elected to take early retirement and spent 9 months at the Ruhr University - Bochum as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He then moved to the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA, where he served as a program officer for over 5 years. During that time, he also was a visiting or guest professor in France, Japan, and Denmark. Prof. Lisy is currently a Specially Appointed Professor in the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology (FIRST) and the Institute of Integrated Research (IIR) at the Institute of Science Tokyo where he continues to pursue research on ionophores and ion channels. In addition, he serves as an advisor to the ANNEX-Berkeley Program that drives Science Tokyo’s education and research activities in North America, and as a senior scientific advisor to the Director of the Institute of Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan. Prof. Lisy is a member of the International Advisor Board of RESOLV (Ruhr Explores Solvation), where he has served since 2015. When not abroad, he resides on the Big Island of Hawaii.