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Born 9 April 1959 (age 57) ( 1959-04-09 ) Dallas, Texas Known for printed metals
conducting polymers
printed electronics Notable awards 2006 Carnegie Science Center Start-Up Entrepreneur Award Alma maters University of Texas at Austin (B.S.), Johns Hopkins University (PhD) | ||
Richard D. McCullough (born April 9, 1959) is an American chemist and Vice Provost for Research at Harvard University, where he is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is best known for his work in developing printable electronic materials. McCullough was the Vice President for Research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from 2007 to 2012, where he had previously served as the Dean of the Mellon College of Science, and head of the Department of Chemistry.
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Education
McCullough was born in Dallas, Texas in 1959. He received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Texas, Dallas in 1982 and earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in 1988. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University.
Research at Carnegie Mellon University
McCullough's research at Carnegie Mellon University focused on the self-assembly and synthesis of highly conductive organic polymers and oligimers, conjugated polymer sensors, nanoelectronic assembly and fabrication of molecular circuits and transistors, printable metals, new design methods and the synthesis of organic-inorganic hybrid nanomagnets and high-spin materials, crystal engineering and novel nanocrystalline semiconductor materials. In 1991, the McCullough group reported the first synthesis of regioregular head-to-tail coupled poly (3-alkylthiophenes).
Commercial activities
McCullough holds ten U.S. patents and is the founder of two companies, Plextronics Inc, and Liquid X Printed Metals.
Awards and achievements
As co-founder and chief scientific officer for Plextronics, McCullough received the 2006 Carnegie Science Center Start-Up Entrepreneur Award. McCullough is a member of the American Chemical Society, receiving its Akron Award in 2002 and its Pittsburgh Award in 2007. In 2014, he was elected to the National Academy of Inventors. McCullough has published over one hundred articles, books, and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of Advanced Materials, Advanced Electronic Materials, Open Materials Science Journal, and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Personal life
McCullough is married with two sons and lives with his wife, Jai Vartikar, PhD, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.