Prof. Jeff Moore To Serve as 2012-13 Interim Department Head

Jeffrey Moore, an alumnus of Chemistry at Illinois and Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, has been named as Interim Head of the Department of Chemistry for the 2012-13 year.

Professor Moore received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1989 from the University of Illinois. Thereafter, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech and an assistant professor at the University of Michigan before joining the faculty in 1993. Professor Moore is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society and a faculty member of the Beckman Institute and the Frederick Seitz Material Research Lab.