Daniel W. Armstrong

Biography Daniel W. Armstrong was born in 1949 to Robert E. Armstrong, an educator and mayor of Fort Wayne, IN and Nila L. Armstrong. He was the oldest of their three sons. As an undergraduate student, he played collegiate football and track & field. He is married to Linda M. Armstrong and they have three children.

Early career Armstrong received his B.S. from Washington and Lee University. He received M.S. in oceanography and Ph.D. in bio-organic chemistry from Texas A&M University. Armstrong began his career at Bowdoin College as an assistant professor in 1978 and moved to Georgetown University in 1980, followed by Texas Tech University and then the University of Missouri Rolla as a curator's distinguished professor. Later he joined Iowa State University in 2000 as the first Caldwell Distinguished Professor. He joined University of Texas at Arlington in 2006 as the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor, where he currently leads a research group in diverse areas of chiral molecular recognitions, ionic liquids, separation mechanism and theory, ultra-fast analysis, D-amino acid and peptide analysis and gas and liquid chromatography instrumentation and detectors. 2015 - Wilfred T. Doherty Research & Service Award – DFW Section of American Chemical Society 2017 - Named to the Analytical Scientist's 2017 Power List Top 10 2018 - Received Dow Chemical WesTEC Award for "Distinguished Leader in Science and Technology" 2018 - Granted a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree from Slovak University of Technology 2018 - UT Arlington Excellence in Teaching Award 2019 - Named to the Analytical Scientist's 2019 Power List Top 20 2020 - LCGC Lifetime Achievement Award