Eric J. Schelter

Educational Background

• B.S. Michigan Technological University (1999)
• Ph.D. Texas A&M University, Advisor Kim R. Dunbar (2004)
• Glenn T. Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2004-2005)
• Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2006)
• Frederick Reines Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2006-2009)
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (2009)
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (2015)
• Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (2018)
• Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (2023)

Honors & Awards

• 2024 Cottrell Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Award
• 2023 RSC Horizon Prize for Education
• 2023 Wilhelm Schlenk Lectureship Award
• 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• 2022 Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (2021-2023)
• Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award (2020)
• Member, Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania (2019)
• Seaborg Visiting Professor, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2018)
• Winner, “60-Second Slam” Penn Arts and Sciences Alumni Event, Elevator Pitch Competition (2018)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Chemistry Challenge Award Recipient (2017)
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Inorganic Chemistry (2016-2018)
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry Mentor (2016-2018)
• ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Chair Elect, Coordination Chemistry Subdivision (2016)
• ACS Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator (2016)
• Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar (2013)
• U.S. DOE Early Career Research Program Award (2011)