Garegin A. Papoian

Monroe Martin Professor - University of Maryland
Chemical Physics, Director,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
Physical Sciences Center Bldg 1149
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742-2021
Tel: 301 405 8667
Email: gpapoian@umd.edu
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Curriculum Vitae
Garegin A. Papoian


Education

1995-1999 Cornell University, Ph.D.
Advisor: Prof. Roald Hoffmann 		  Ithaca, NY
1995 University of Kansas, M.S.   Lawrence, K.S.
1990-1994 Russian Academy of Sciences, Higher Chemical College   Moscow, Russia
1990 High School of Physics & Mathematics   Yerevan, Armenia


Appointments

2014-Present Monroe Martin Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Institute for Physical Science and Technology   College Park, MD
2010-2014 Monroe Martin Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Institute for Physical Science and Technology   College Park, MD
2004-2010 Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program Faculty, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Chapel Hill, NC
2004-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Chapel Hill, NC
2001-2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego; Advisor: Prof. Peter G. Wolynes   La Jolla, CA
2000 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, The University of Pennsylvania; Advisor: Prof. Michael L. Klein   Philadelphia, PA

Awards

2019 Visiting Merton Fellow (University of Oxford) Oxford, UK
2016 Visiting Fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK Cambridge, UK
2011 Rice Family Fund Fellowship Award, The Kavli Institute for Theoretical
Physics		 Santa Barbara, CA
2010 Faculty of 1000 member USA
2010 ACS Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award USA
2010 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement Chapel Hill, NC
2009-2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award USA
2008-2013 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar USA
2007-2010 Beckman Young Investigator USA
2004-2009 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award USA
2005 R. J. Reynolds Excellence Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC-CH Chapel Hill, NC
2001-2004 National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship  USA
1999 Wentink Prize to Outstanding Graduate Students, Cornell University Ithaca, NY
1997-1998 Wachter Memorial Award for Outstanding Research in Physical, Chemistry, Cornell University Ithaca, NY
1995  H. P. Cady Award for Academic Excellence, The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS
1992 Mendeleev Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student Research in Russia Moscow, Russia
1992 Young Scientist Award in the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry Moscow, Russia
1987-1990 Winner of a number of National Olympiads among high school students in the Republic of Armenia and USSR (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics) USSR



Last updated: March 15, 2016