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Gerald L. Roberts Weatherspoon

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 3E2
Fairfax, VA 22030
Office: (703) 993-1456 ; Fax: (703) 993-1055
grobert1@gmu.edu

Education

University of California-Davis, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, 1995.

Jackson State University, B. S. in Chemistry, 1984.

Research Experience:

Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ; Applied Materials Research Department, October 1994 - August 1996; Dr. Robert J. Cava, advisor.

Doctoral dissertation with Professor Susan M. Kauzlarich, 1991-1995, University of California-Davis. Dissertation title: "Investigation of the Mechanism of the Electrosynthesis of the Superconductor Ba_1-xK_xBiO₃ and Cu-O Materials".

Employment:

2002-present	George Mason University, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Summer 2006	Louisiana State University, Visiting Associate Professor of Chemistry, NSF Summer Research Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry
1996-2002	George Mason University, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
1994-1996	Lucent Technologies, Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff
1990-1994	University of California-Davis, Graduate Research Student
1985-1991	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Analytical Chemist

Organizations:

Member of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the Materials Research Society (MRS), the Virginia Academy of Science (VAS), American Association of University Professors (AAUP)