About the Speaker:

Educational Background:

• B.S., Chemistry, Furman University, 2002
• M.S., Chemistry, Furman University, 2003
• Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Michigan State University, 2009
• Postdoc, Bio-Organic Chemistry, North Carolina State University, 2009-2011

Bio:

Prof. Dan Whitehead was educated at Furman University and Michigan State University, and has been a faculty member of the Clemson Chemistry department since 2011. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2018. Dr. Whitehead’s bio-organic chemistry lab leverages collaborations across campus, the country, and the globe to tackle difficult problems spanning the development of new organic chemistry reactions, the discovery of new drugs for chronic diseases driven parasites and bacteria, and functional nanomaterials for environmental and biomedical applications.

Research Interests:

Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Bio-Organic Chemistry, Materials