Dr. Gordon is currently a detailee from the Chemistry Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and is a Program Manager in the Catalysis and Chemical Transformations program.  He received his B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Glasgow ( Scotland ) in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Notre Dame, working in the synthesis and characterization of organometallic complexes supported by Nickel-Group 6 Metal bonds. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Maryland, College Park and at LANL. After spending a brief period in the private sector, he returned to Los Alamos as a Technical Staff Member in 1999. He currently resides in the Actinide, Catalysis, and Separations Chemistry (C-SIC) group at LANL and before leaving for his rotation at OBES, he was most recently an Associate Director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science there.

Dr. Gordon's research interests broadly span the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the 4f- and 5-f block elements. Current research efforts are targeted at the preparation, chemical reactivity and computational studies of novel complexes containing lanthanide main-group element multiple bonds. His work in this particular area has recently been described in invited talks at a National Science Foundation workshop and at an Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference. He has published approximately 50 peer-reviewed articles and is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS). He has previously served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and in an ongoing fashion for several of the ACS’s peer reviewed journals in inorganic and organometallic chemistry.

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