Gregory S. Girolami

Gregory S. Girolami (born October 16, 1956) is the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of new inorganic, organometallic, and solid state species. Girolami has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Chemical Society.

Gregory Scott Girolami
Born1956 (age 6869)
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin B.S.
University of California at Berkeley Ph.D. (1981)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
ThesisAlkyl and Lewis-Base Derivatives of Compounds which contain Multiple Metal-Metal Bonds (1981)
Doctoral advisorRichard A. Andersen
Other academic advisorsGeoffrey Wilkinson
Doctoral studentsCheon Jinwoo, Wenbin Lin, Julia L. Brumaghim, Timothy H. Warren
Websitefaculty.scs.illinois.edu/girolami/