STEIN RESEARCH GROUP

POROUS SOLIDS — NANOCOMPOSITES — SELF-ASSEMBLED FRAMEWORKS

Professor Stein obtained his B.Sc. degree in chemistry at the University of Calgary in 1986 and carried out his graduate work with Professor Geoff Ozin at the University of Toronto, specializing in the synthesis and characterization of zeolite materials. After earning his Ph.D. degree in 1991, he joined the Advanced Inorganic Materials group at the corporate research labs of Bayer A.G. in Germany as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow, followed by postdoctoral research with Professor Tom Mallouk at both the University of Texas, Austin, and at Penn State University. In 1994 he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he is now Merck Professor of Chemistry. Professor Stein’s research interests are in the field of solid state chemistry, in particular porous materials and nanocomposites. His program has pioneered research on the compositional and structural control of templated mesoporous and macroporous sieves, open-framework structures, and polymer/inorganic nanocomposites. He is the recipient of several awards, including a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant, a Dupont Young Professor Grant, a David & Lucile Packard Fellowship, a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, and a very prestigious NSF CAREER Award. He has been on the editorial advisory boards for Chemistry of Materials and Advanced Functional Materials.