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Darren Johnson, Mentor
Chemistry

Jeffrey Meisner, McNair Scholar

Darren W. Johnson received his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, where he performed undergraduate research under the direction of Jonathan L. Sessler. He earned his Ph. D. in Chemistry in 2000 from the University of California at Berkeley working with Kenneth N. Raymond, and he then spent two years at the Scripps Research Institute as a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow with Julius Rebek, Jr. He joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Oregon as an assistant professor in 2003, where he is also a member of the UO Materials Science Institute and an Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) Researcher. He is a Cottrell Scholar of Research Corporation and a National Science Foundation CAREER awardee. His research focuses on supramolecular main group coordination chemistry. This includes developing design strategies that use main group ions including arsenic and lead as directing elements in metal-ligand self-assembly reactions, optimizing new receptors for anions exploiting the anion-<eth> interaction as a recognition motif, and preparing new Group 13 tridecameric inorganic coordination clusters.