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Biographical Sketches
Rinaldo Poli obtained his Ph.D. in 1985 from the Scuola Normale Superiore
in Pisa under the supervision of Fausto Calderazzo. He spent one
year with Geoffrey Wilkinson (exchange student, 1983–1984) and two
years with Al Cotton (research associate, 1985–1987). He started his
career at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he rose the
ranks to Full Professor, and moved to his current Professor position in
1996. He has been Camille and Henry Dreyfus Distinguished New
Faculty (1987), Presidential Young Investigator (1990), Alfred P. Sloan
Research Fellow (1992), Alexander von Humboldt Forschungsstipendiat
(1993), and a recipient of the Medaglia Nasini from the Italian Chemical Society (1992).
Visiting Professor positions include the Technische Universität München (1993–1994),
Tokyo Metropolitan University (1995), the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford
(1998), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (2001 and 2002).
Kevin Smith was born in 1969 in Toronto, Canada. He received a B. Sc.
degree in chemistry from the University of Toronto in 1992 and a Ph.D.
in inorganic chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1998
with Peter Legzdins. After postdoctoral research with Rinaldo Poli, he
joined the faculty at the University of Prince Edward Island in 2000,
where he is now Assistant Professor.