B. Jill Venton

B. Jill Venton is a professor of chemistry at University of Virginia, where she serves as the department chair since 2019. Venton's research focuses on developing analytical chemistry methods to enable detection of molecules in the brain.

Education Venton received her BS in Chemistry from University of Delaware in 1998 and her PhD in Chemistry from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2003. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at University of Michigan from 2003 to 2005.

Research Venton joined the Department of Chemistry at University of Virginia as an assistant professor in 2005, received tenure and was promoted to an associate professor in 2011, and was promoted to full professor in 2016. to achieve real-time monitoring of neurotransmitters to help understand the brain functions both under normal physiological conditions and in neurological disorders.

Awards and honors

National Science Foundation Career Award, 2007–2012 Meade Endowment Honored Faculty, 2007–2008 Eli Lilly Young Analytical Investigator Award, 2007 American Chemical Society PROGRESS/Dreyfus Foundation Lectureship, 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 2010 Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, Young Investigator Award, 2011 President Elect, International Society of Monitoring Molecules in vivo, 2018–2022 Distinguished Researcher Award, American Chemical Society Virginia Section, 2020

Selected publications