Michael Therien

Michael J. Therien is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Duke University.

Career Therien received his B.S. in Chemistry from University of St. Andrews in 1982. He began his studies in organometallic chemistry at University of California, San Diego, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1987 working with William C. Trogler. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1987, he was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology under Harry B. Gray.

Major publications (Publications listed below have been cited more than 200 times)

Awards and honors Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2020 Fellow, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, 2009 International Francqui Chair, 2008 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005 Philadelphia Section Award, American Chemical Society, 2004 Young Investigator Award, Society of Porphyrins & Phthalocyanines, 2002 Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1995 NSF National Young Investigator, 1993-98 Young Investigator Award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, 1992-1994 Searle Scholar, 1991>