`President/Owner/Founder, 525 Solutions, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`Research Professor, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
`Honorary Professor, Institute for Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
`Founding Editor-in-Chief, Crystal Growth & Design
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`525 Solutions, Inc.
`P.O. Box 2206
`Tuscaloosa, AL 35403
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`Telephone: +1-205-348-1918
`Email: Robin.Rogers@525Solutions.com
`URL: http://www.525solutions.com/
`URL (CGD): http://pubs.acs.org/crystal
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`Date of Birth: March 4, 1957
`Schools Attended and Degrees:
`1975-1978: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Chemistry Honors student; B.S. Degree in
`Chemistry (ACS); Summa Cum Laude.
`1978-1982: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry; Research Advisor:
`Professor Jerry L. Atwood.
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`Positions:
`Active
`2004-:
`2009-:
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`2017-:
`2017-:
`2017-:
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`Inactive
`1982-1996:
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`1996-2014:
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`2007-2009:
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`2015-2017:
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`2015-2017:
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`Founder, President, and Owner, 525 Solutions, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`Honorary Professor, Institute for Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
`Beijing, China
`Research Professor, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
`Co-founder and Co-owner, Wyonics LLC, Laramie, WY, USA
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`Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (1987), Professor (1994), Presidential Research
`Professor (1995), Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
`Professor, Director of the Center for Green Manufacturing (1998-), Distinguished Research
`Professor (2004-), Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry (2005-), The University of Alabama,
`Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`Chair of Green Chemistry and Co-Director of the QUILL Research Centre, The Queen’s
`University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
`Adjunct Professor (2015-2016), Adjunct Faculty (2016-), The University of Alabama,
`Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`Canada Excellence Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals, McGill
`University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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`Former Adjunct, Honorary, and Visiting:
`1982 (summer): Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
`1991-1998:
`Resident Associate Guest (1991), Visiting Scientist (1992), Faculty Appointee (1993-
`1997), Guest Appointee (1997), Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
`Adjunct Professor, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`1995-1996:
`Adjunct Professor, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
`1996-1997:
`2000 & 2006: Visiting Professor, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
`2004:
`Adjunct Professor, Polymer and Fiber Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
`2004:
`Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama,
`Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
`Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
`Argentum EX1023
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`2010:
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`2014:
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`Institute for Process Engineering, Beijing, China
`Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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`Memberships and Offices in Societies:
`• Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi, American Nuclear Society; American Crystallographic Association; American
`Institute of Chemical Engineers; Materials Research Society; American Association of Crystal Growth;
`Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the Royal Society of
`Chemistry; Chemical Institute of Canada; National Academy of Inventors.
`• American Chemical Society: Rock River Local Section: Chairman Elect (Program Chairman), 1983-84;
`Chairman, 1984-86; Executive Committee, 1986-87; Secretary-Treasurer, 1988. Separation Science and
`Technology Subdivision (Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (I&EC)): Program Committee, 1992-2005;
`Executive Committee, 1993-2006; Vice Chair-Elect, 1993; Chair-Elect, 1994; Chair, 1995; Past-Chair,
`1996. Practical Pollution Prevention Subdivision (I&EC): Co-Chair, 1998-99. Green Chemistry &
`Engineering Subdivision (I&EC): Program Committee, 2000-2006. I&EC Division: Program Committee,
`1994-2002; Membership Committee (Academic Chemists Task Force Chair), 1996-2000; Executive
`Committee, 1995-2006; Program Secretary, 1995-98 ; Chair-Elect, 1998; Chair, 1999; Past-Chair, 2000;
`Parliamentarian, 2004-2006; I&EC Fellow, 2012. Committee on Science, 2004-06; Fellow of the American
`Chemical Society, 2009; Committee on Environmental Improvement, Associate 2010-2011; Member 2011-.
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`Advisory Boards:
`• Scientific Advisory Board, EIChroM Industries, Inc., Darien, IL, 1995-2000.
`• The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board, 1997-2002.
`• Technology Review Council, Environmental Technology Demonstration and Commercialization Center
`(ETDCC), Texas City, TX, 1998-2000.
`• Scientific Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Bioenergy Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2010-
`• Scientific Advisory Board, Alkermes, Inc., Waltham, MA, 2012.
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`International Advisory Board, CICECO: Aveiro Institute of Materials, Aveiro, Portugal, 2017-.
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`Editorial Boards and Editorships:
`Active
`Separation Science and Technology: Associate Editor, 1996-99; Editorial Board 1999-
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`• Crystal Growth & Design: Founding Editor-in-Chief, 2000-
`Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, Editorial Board, 2002-
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`• Green Chemistry, Advisory Board, 2002-
`• Chemical Communications, Advisory Board, 2005-
`• ChemSusChem, International Advisory Board, 2008-
`• Chemistry Letters, Advisory Board, 2010-
`• Chimica Oggi/Chemistry Today, Scientific Advisory Board, 2014-
`• Green Energy & Environment, Advisory Board, 2016-
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`Inactive
`Journal of Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Research: Editorial Board, 1989-93; Associate Editor, 1993
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`Journal of Chemical Crystallography: Associate Editor, 1994-96; Editor, 1996-2000
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`• Crystal Engineering: Founding Co-Editor, 1998-99
`Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research: Editorial Board, 1999-2001
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`Journal of Chromatography, B, Guest Editor, Volume 743 (1 + 2), 2000
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`• Accounts of Chemical Research, Guest Editor (with G. A. Voth), Special Issue on Ionic Liquids, Volume
`40(11), 2007
`• Australian Journal of Chemistry, Guest Editor (with K. R. Seddon), Research Front on Crystal Engineering,
`Volume 63(4), 2010
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`• Separation Science & Technology, Guest Editor (with H. Rodriguez and J. Chen), Special Issue on Ionic
`Liquids (2012).
`• Chemical Communications Guest Editor (with D. MacFarlane and S. Zhang), Special Issue on Ionic Liquids
`(2012).
`• Science China – Chemistry Guest Editor (with S. Zhang), Special Issue on Ionic Liquids (2012).
`• Catalysis Today Guest Editor (with S. Zhang), Special Issue on Ionic Liquids (2012).
`• Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, Book Series Editor (with L.-
`N. He, D. Su, P. Tundo, and Z. C. Zhang).
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`National Academy of Sciences Committees:
`• National Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management Committee on Long Term
`Research Needs for High-Level Waste at Department of Energy Sites, 1999-2001.
`• National Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management Committee on Risk-Based
`Approaches for Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste, 2003-2005.
`• National Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management Committee Development and
`Implementation of a Cleanup Technology Roadmap, 2007-2009.
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`Awards:
`• Northern Illinois University Outstanding Faculty Advisor - 1993
`• Northern Illinois University Presidential Research Professor – 1995
`• American Chemical Society Newsmaker Award – 2001 (“ACS Newsmakers honored in Chicago,”
`Chemical & Engineering News, September 24, 2001, p 49.)
`• The University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences Leadership Board Fellow – 2002-2005
`• The University of Alabama Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award – 2003.
`• The University of Alabama Distinguished Research Professor – 2004
`• The University of Alabama Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry - 2005
`• 2005 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (Academic): “A Platform Strategy Utilizing Ionic
`Liquids to Dissolve and Process Cellulose for Advanced New Materials,” – 2005 (Ritter, S. K. “Green
`Success,” Chemical & Engineering News, June 27, 2005, pp 40-43.)
`• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry - 2006
`• The University of Alabama Frederick Moody Blackmon – Sarah McCorkle Moody Outstanding Professor
`Award - 2009
`• Fellow of the American Chemical Society – 2009
`• Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Senior Scientist, Institute for Process Engineering, Beijing, China -
`2010
`• American Chemical Society Award in Separations Science and Technology – 2011
`• Fellow of the American Chemical Society Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry - 2012
`• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – 2012
`• Paul Walden Award in Ionic Liquids, Presented by the German Science Foundation Priority Program on
`Ionic Liquids (SPP 1191) – 2013
`• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers List 2014, 2015 (ranking among the top 1% most cited in
`chemistry).
`• R&D100 Award for “U Grabber” 2016 (525 Solutions with Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
`• Max Bredig Award in Molten Salt and Ionic Liquid Chemistry, Presented by the Physical and Analytical
`Electrochemistry Division of the Electrochemical Society – 2018.
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`Student Awards:
`• Ann E. Visser: American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division Graduate Student Award in
`Solvent Extraction – 2002
`• Richard P. Swatloski: ACS Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Student Award in Green Chemistry – 2003
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`(“2003 Hancock Award Honors Student Research,” Chemical & Engineering News, July 7, 2003, pp 67-68.)
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`Research Interest:
`Utilizing Ionic Liquids and Green Chemistry for Sustainable Technology Through Innovation and
`Translation to Society. Major thrusts include: Materials: Advanced polymeric and composite materials
`from biorenewables to eliminate synthetic plastics; Separations: Novel strategies for separation and
`purification of value added products from biomass; Energy: New lubricant technologies and selective
`separations; Medicine/Agrochemicals/Nutraceuticals: Elimination of waste while delivering improved
`performance and new applications of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and nutraceuticals.
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`Statistics:
`A. Refereed Publications: > 790
`B. Citations; H-Index; i10 Index: > 40,000; 88; 530
`C. Patents: 26 issued (plus numerous foreign equivalents); 22 submitted; 15 licensed
`D. Books Edited: 14
`E. Non-Refereed Reviews, Reports, and Articles: 79
`F. Meetings (Symposia) Organized: 34 (39)
`G. Presentations (including students and collaborators) before National and International Meetings: 956
`H. Presentations (including students and collaborators) before Regional Meetings: 123
`I. Seminars: 242
`J. PhD (thesis MS) degrees supervised: 28 (4)
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`Financial Disclosure:
`Dr. Robin D. Rogers has partial ownership of 525 Solutions, Inc., Mari Signum Ltd., Mari Signum Texas LLC,
`Wyonics LLC, and Iolitec, Inc. in addition to financial interest in patents and patent applications through The
`University of Alabama and McGill University.
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`Meetings Organized:
`• Chair, 23rd Great Lakes Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, DeKalb, IL, 1990.
`• Conference Chair, 11th International Conference on Partitioning in Aqueous Two-Phase Systems: The
`Expanding Boundaries of Aqueous Two-Phase Partitioning: Fundamentals and Applications of
`Environmentally-Benign Polymers in Biological, Industrial and Environmental Processes, Gulf Shores, AL
`June 27-July 2, 1999. (Conference URL: http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/aq2phase/11thconf.html.)
`• Co-Director (with K. R. Seddon and S. Volkov), NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Green Industrial
`Applications of Ionic Liquids, Crete, Greece, April 12-16, 2000. (Conference URL:
`http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/NATO.) (Highlighted in Freemantle, M. “Eyes On Ionic Liquids,” Chemical
`& Engineering News, May 15, 2000, pp 37-50.)
`• Organizer, Industries of the Future Alabama Symposium: Sustainable Industry through Green Chemistry
`and Engineering, Mobile, AL July 27-28, 2000. (Conference URL:
`http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/IOF/Mobile.)
`• Co-Vice Chair (with J. C. Warner), Gordon Research Conference on Green Chemistry, Oxford, United
`Kingdom, September 8-13, 2002.
`• Co-Chair (with A. S. Myerson, S. M. Reutzel-Edens, and R. J. Davey), ACS ProSpectives Series:
`Polymorphism in Crystals: Fundamentals, Prediction, and Industrial Practice, Tampa, FL, February 23-27,
`2003.
`• Co-Chair (with A. S. Myerson, and S. M. Reutzel-Edens), ACS ProSpectives Series: Polymorphism in
`Crystals, Tampa, FL, February 8-11, 2004.
`• Organizer, Ionic Liquids Workshop: Background, State-of-the-Art, and Academic/Industrial Applications,
`Tuscaloosa, AL, March 23-24, 2004 (Workshop URL: http://www.bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/ILWorkshop04/).
`• Co-Chair (with J. C. Warner), Gordon Research Conference on Green Chemistry, Bristol, RI, July 4-9, 2004
`(Conference URL: http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/GreenChemistryGRC04).
`• U.S. Organizer, NSF Joint China-USA Workshop Determining the Grand Challenges of Green Chemistry
`Development and Implementation, Beijing, China, May 27-31, 2005.
`• Organizer, EPA/Green Chemistry Institute Workshop Incorporating Toxicology into the Design Criteria for
`New Ionic Liquids Synthesis, Washington, DC, June 9-10, 2005.
`• Program Chair, 2nd International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry; 9th Annual Green
`Chemistry and Engineering Conference: Taking Measure of Green Progress: Opportunities to Meet Global
`Challenges, Washington, DC, June 20-24, 2005.
`• Program Chair, 2005 Rare Earth Research Conference, Keystone, CO, June 26-30, 2005.
`• Co-Organizer (with D. A. Dixon), Alabama Actinide Day, April 6, 2005, Tuscaloosa, AL.
`• Local Organizer, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Ionic Liquids Research Workshop, Tuscaloosa,
`AL, February 7-8, 2006.
`• Organizer, Ionic Liquids Workshop: Background, State-of-the-Art, and Academic/Industrial Applications,
`Tuscaloosa, AL, March 23-24, 2006 (Workshop URL: http://www.bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/ILWorkshop06/).
`• Co-Chair (with A. S. Myerson) ACS ProSpectives Series: Process Crystallization in the Pharmaceutical
`and Chemical Industries, Philadelphia, PA, April 25 - 27, 2006.
`• Co-Chair (with M. Maase) Intertech Pira Conference Ionic Liquids: Technical Innovations, Emerging
`Markets and Applications, Orlando, FL, December 11-13, 2006.
`• Co-Chair (with A. S. Myerson) ACS ProSpectives Series: Crystallization Process Development: Case
`Studies & Research, Boston, MA, February 25-27, 2007.
`• Organizing Committee (with K. R. Seddon and J. F. Brennecke), Biodegradability and Toxicity of Ionic
`Liquids, Berlin, Germany, May 6-9, 2007.
`• Chair, Intertech Pira Conference Ionic Liquids: Technical Innovations, Emerging Markets and Applications,
`Prague, Czech Republic, October 16-18, 2007.
`• Co-Chair (with M. Hong), 5th Chinese National Symposium on Structural Chemistry and Symposium on
`Chinese Strategy of Crystal Growth & Design,” Fuzhou, China, October 25-31, 2007.
`• Conference Chair, 25th Rare Earth Research Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, June 22-26, 2008.
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`• Organizer/Lecturer, 1st Ionic Liquid Workshop Malaysia, University of Technology PETRONAS, Tronoh,
`Malaysia, June 30 – July 11, 2008.
`• Local Organizing Committee, 15th International Conference on Biopartitioning and Purification, Brunel
`University, Uxbridge, UK, June 14-19, 2009.
`• Co-Chair (with T. Beyersdorff), Intertech Pira Conference Ionic Liquids, Miami Beach, FL, November 18-
`19, 2009.
`• Vice Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering, Waterville Valley, NH, June 6-11, 2010.
`• Co-Organizer (with G. Desiraju), Crystal Growth & Design-India Summit and Current Trends in Crystal
`Engineering Research, Bangalore, India, December 2-3, 2010.
`• Conference Chair, 4th Congress on Ionic Liquids, Washington, DC, June 15-18, 2011.
`• Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering, Waterville Valley, NH, June 10-15, 2012.
`• Co-Chair (with S. Zhang), 3rd Asian-Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquids and Green Processes, APCIL’12,
`Beijing, China, September 17-19, 2012.
`• Theme Organizer, “Chemistry & Global Stewardship” for the 248th ACS National Meeting (2014), San
`Francisco, CA, August 10-14 2014.
`• Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids, Newry, ME, August 17-22, 2014.
`• Organizer/Host, 2015 New Journal of Chemistry Symposium New Directions in Chemistry, Montreal, QC
`Canada, June 3, 2015.
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`Symposia Organized:
`• “Aqueous Biphasic Separations: Biomolecules to Metal Ions,” (with C. K. Hall) for the 207th ACS National
`Meeting (1994), San Diego, CA.
`• “Lanthanide Coordination Chemistry,” for the Rare Earth Research Conference (1996), Duluth, MN.
`• “Current Trends in Applied Chemistry: The Industrial/Academic Interface in Separation Science,” for the
`213th ACS National Meeting (1997), San Francisco, CA.
`• “Recent Advances in Metal Ion Separation and Preconcentration,” (with M. L. Dietz and A. H. Bond) for
`the 214th ACS National Meeting (1997), Las Vegas, NV.
`• “Crystal Engineering: Functional Solids by Design,” (with M. J. Zaworotko) for the Fifth Chemical
`Congress of North America (1997), Cancún, Mexico.
`• “Transactions Symposium: Crystal Engineering,” (with M. J. Zaworotko) for the American Crystallographic
`Association Annual Meeting (1998), Arlington, VA.
`• “Nuclear Separations for Radiopharmacy,” (with M. L. Dietz and A. H. Bond) for the 216th ACS National
`Meeting (1998), Boston, MA.
`• “Calixarene Molecules for Separations,” (with G. Lumetta and A. S. Gopolan) for the 217th ACS National
`Meeting (1999), Anaheim, CA.
`• “Toward Vision 2000: Sustainable Technology for the Future,” (with A. Manheim and A. H. Bond) Poster
`Session for the 217th ACS National Meeting (1999), Anaheim, CA.
`• “Synthesis of New Materials by Coordination Chemistry, Self Assembly and Template Formation,” (with
`M. J. Zaworotko) for the 217th ACS National Meeting (1999), Anaheim, CA.
`• “Crystal Engineering,” Microsymposium 110D (G. R. Desiraju, Chair; M. J. Zaworotko and R. D. Rogers,
`Co-Chairs) for the XVIIIth International Union of Crystallography Congress and General Assembly (1999),
`Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
`• “Separation Science and Technology Award Honoring E. Philip Horwitz: Solvent Extraction and Ion
`Exchange in the 21st Century,” (with S. Alexandratos) for the 219th ACS National Meeting (2000), San
`Francisco, CA.
`• “Advances in Solvent Selection and Substitution for Extraction,” (with M. Overcash) for the 2000 Spring
`National AIChE Meeting (2000), Atlanta, GA.
`• “Crystal Engineering,” (with W. T. Pennington) for the 52nd Southeast/56th Southwest Combined Regional
`Meeting of the ACS (2000), New Orleans, LA.
`• “Separation Science: Trends for the New Century,” (with S. Alexandratos, A. Jyo, and M. J. Zaworotko) for
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`the 2000 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Pacifichem 2000 (2000), Honolulu,
`HI.
`• “Green (or Greener) Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids,” (with K. R. Seddon) for the 221st ACS
`National Meeting (2001), San Diego, CA (URL: http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/sandiego).
`• “Crystal Engineering to Crystal Growth: Design and Function,” (with A. S. Myerson and K. R. Seddon) for
`the 223rd ACS National Meeting (2002), Orlando, FL.
`• “Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents: Progress and Prospects,” (with K. R. Seddon) for the 224th ACS National
`Meeting (2002), Boston, MA (URL: http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/Boston).
`• “Ionic Liquids III: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities,” (with K. R. Seddon) for the
`226th ACS National Meeting (2003), New York, NY (URL: http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/New York).
`• “Ionic Liquids in Polymer Systems,” (with C. S. Brazel) for the 227th ACS National Meeting (2004),
`Anaheim, CA (Highlighted in Freemantle, M. “Designer Liquids in Polymer Systems,” Chemical &
`Engineering News, May 3, 2004, pp 26-29.)
`• “Polymorphism,” Microsymposium MS04 (with E. Vlieg) for the XXth International Union of
`Crystallography Congress and General Assembly (2005), Florence, Italy.
`• “Lanthanide-containing Functional Edifices,” (with J.-C. Bunzli, H. Tsukube, and J. Takats) for the 2005
`International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Pacifichem 2005 (2005), Honolulu, HI.
`• “Ionic Liquids: Perspectives on the Present, Visions for the Future“ (with J. Davis, Jr., D. MacFarlane, and
`H. Ohno) for the 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Pacifichem 2005 (2005),
`Honolulu, HI.
`• “Organic Reactions in Neoteric Media” (with C.-J. Li, T.-H. Chan, D. H. Busch, S. Kobayashi, and P.
`Jessop) for the 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Pacifichem 2005 (2005),
`Honolulu, HI.
`• “Ionic Liquids: Not Just Solvents Anymore OR Ionic Liquids: Parallel Futures,” (with J. F. Brennecke and
`K. R. Seddon) for the 231st ACS National Meeting (2006), Atlanta, GA (URL:
`http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/Atlanta2006/)
`• “Green Chemistry and Engineering” (with M. A. Abraham) within the Joint ACS/AIChE Symposium on
`“Applied Chemistry and Engineering” for the 233rd ACS National Meeting (2007), Chicago, IL.
`• “Award in Separations Science and Technology: Symposium in Honor of Allen S. Myerson,” for the 235th
`ACS National Meeting (2008), New Orleans, LA.
`• “Ionic Liquids: From Knowledge to Application,” (with J. F. Brennecke and K. R. Seddon) for the 236th
`ACS National Meeting (2008), Philadelphia, PA (URL: http://bama.ua.edu/~rdrogers/Philadelphia2008/).
`• “Green Chemistry for a Sustainable World,” for the 239th ACS National Meeting (2010), San Francisco,
`CA.
`• “Symposium in Honor of Allan S. Myerson, I&EC Fellow,” for the 239th ACS National Meeting (2010),
`San Francisco, CA.
`• “Ionic Liquids in a Sustainable World (#92)” (with D. MacFarlane and H. Ohno) for the 2010 International
`Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Pacifichem 2010 (2010), Honolulu, HI.
`• “Ionic Liquids: Science and Applications” (with A. E. Visser and N. J. Bridges) for the 243rd ACS National
`Meeting (2012), San Diego, CA.
`• “Functional Materials and Ionic Liquids (BBB)” (with S. Dai, T. P. Lodge, P. Wasserscheid, and M.
`Watanabe) for the 2012 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (2012), San Francisco, CA.
`• “Uranium from Seawater” (with S. Dai and B. Hay) for the 244th ACS National Meeting (2012),
`Philadelphia, PA.
`• “Materials Applications of Ionic Liquids (VV)” (with R. E. Del Sesto, S. Dai, and Y. Yoshida) for the 2013
`Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (2013), San Francisco, CA.
`• “Uranium from Seawater” (with P. F. Britt) for the 249th ACS National Meeting (2015), Denver, CO.
`• “Transactions Symposium: Crystallography for Sustainability,” (with C. Lind-Kovacs) for the American
`Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting (2015), Philadelphia, PA.
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`• “Connecting Ionic Liquids to Societal Issues: Materials, Medicines, Energy, and Water (#113)” (with D.
`MacFarlane and H. Ohno) for the 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies,
`Pacifichem 2015 (Dec. 14-21, 2015), Honolulu, HI.
`• “Pharmaceutical Ionic Liquids: Understanding, Design, and Utilization,” for the Molecules, Materials,
`Medicines (M3) Meeting (May 14-17, 2016), Solomons Island, MD.
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`Other Professional Activities:
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`International Advisory Board member for the 9th International Conference on Partitioning in Aqueous Two-
`Phase Systems, Zaragoza, Spain, 1995.
`International Advisory Board member for the 6th Conference on Separation of Ionic Solutes, Piestany Spa,
`Slovakia, 1995.
`International Scientific Committee member for the 10th International Conference on Partitioning in
`Aqueous Two-Phase Systems, Reading, United Kingdom, 1997.
`• Program Committee for the Tenth Symposium on Separations Science and Technology for Energy
`Applications, Gatlinburg, TN, 1997.
`• Program Committee for the Third Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences Separations Research
`Workshop, Savannah, GA, 1999.
`• Program Committee for the Eleventh Symposium on Separations Science and Technology for Energy
`Applications, Gatlinburg, TN, 1999.
`• Steering Committee Member for Chemistry in the 21st Century, ACS-2000, San Francisco, CA, 2000.
`• Program Committee for IUPAC CHEMRAWN XIV World Conference, Toward Environmentally Benign
`Processes and Products, Boulder, CO, 2001.
`• Program Committee for the Twelfth Symposium on Separations Science and Technology for Energy
`Applications, Gatlinburg, TN, 2001.
`• Chair, Scientific Committee for Bio Partitioning & Purification 2003 Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
`2003.
`Instructor, NSF/DOE Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Green Chemistry, Montevideo,
`Uruguay, 2003.
`International Symposium Committee for the First International Symposium on Process Intensification and
`Miniturisation, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2003.
`• Program Committee for the Thirteenth Symposium on Separations Science and Technology for Energy
`Applications, Gatlinburg, TN, 2003.
`• Scientific Committee for the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT
`2003)/International Union of Materials Research Societies International Conference in Asia (ICA 2003),
`Singapore, Symposium D: New Materials by Crystal Engineering Design.
`• Group of Advisors, LICP Discussions No. 1 - Ionic Liquids: Progress and Prospects, Lanzhou China, 2004.
`• Organizing and Scientific Advisory Committee, Canada-US Joint Workshop on Innovative Chemistry in
`Clean Media, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2004.
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`International Program Committee, EUCHEM 2004 Molten Salts Conference, Piechowice, Poland, 2004.
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`Instructor, ACS-PRF Summer School on Green Chemistry, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.
`International Advisory Board, 1st International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL), Salzburg, Austria, 2005.
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`• Program Committee for the Fourteenth Symposium on Separations Science and Technology for Energy
`Applications, Gatlinburg, TN, 2005.
`• Advisory Board, Second International Symposium on Green/Sustainable Chemistry, Delhi, India, 2006.
`• Organizing Committee 10th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference: Washington, DC, 2006.
`• Scientific Committee, EUCHEM Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids, Hammamet, Tunisia, 2006.
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`International Advisory Committee, International Conference and Exhibition on Green Chemistry, Malaysian
`Chemical Congress (MCC 2006), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2006.
`• Advisory Committee, DAE-BRNS Biennial Symposium on Emerging Trends in Separation Science and
`Technology, SESTEC-2006, Mumbai, India, 2006.
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`• Organizing Committee, 11th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, Washington, DC, 2007.
`International Organizing Committee, 2nd International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL-2), Yokohama,
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`Japan, 2007.
`• Organizing Committee, International Solvent Extraction Conference (ISEC 2008) “Solvent Extraction:
`Fundamentals to Industrial Applications,” Tucson, AZ, 2008.
`International Advisory Board, EUCHEM2008 Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids, Copenhagen,
`Denmark, 2008.
`• Scientific Advisory Board, Taibah International Chemistry Conference 2009 (TICC-2009), Al-Madinah Al-
`Munawarah, Saudi Arabia, 2009.
`International Advisory Board for the Joint Conference: The 4th International Conference on Green and
`Sustainable Chemistry (GSC-4) & the 2nd Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry
`(AOC-2), Beijing, China, 2009.
`International Advisory Committee for the 9th International Workshop on the Crystal Growth of Organic
`Materials (CGOM9), Singapore, 2010.
`International Advisory Committee for Application of Radiotracers in Chemical, Environmental and
`Biological Sciences (ARCEBS 10), Kolkata, India, 2010.
`• Scientific Committee for 2nd Asian Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquids and Green Processes (APCIL-2),
`Dalian, China, 2010.
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`International Advisory Board for the Green Solvents Conference, Berchtesgaden, Germany, 2010.
`• Chair The Rare Earth Research Conference Spedding Award Committee, 2011.
`• Technical Committee, International Solvent Extraction Conference (ISEC 2011), Santiago, Chile, 2011.
`International Scientific Committee, 1st International Conference on Ionic Liquids in Separation and
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`Purification Technology, Sitges, Spain, 2011.
`International Advisory Board, EUCHEM2012 Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids, Newport,
`South Wales, UK, 2012.
`International Advisory Board, Indo-US Workshop on Green Chemistry for Environments and Sustainable
`Development, Dehradun, India, March 11-13, 2012.
`International Scientific Committee, 3rd Asian-Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquids and Green Processes,
`APCIL’12, Beijing, China, September 17-19, 2012.
`International Committee, 2nd International Conference on Ionic Liquids in Separation and Purification
`Technology (ILSEPT), Toronto, Canada, June 29 – July 2, 2014.
`• Advisory Board, 7th Green Solvents Conference, Dresden, Germany, October 19-22, 2014.
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`International Advisory Board, Collaborative Conference on Crystal Growth, Phuket, Thailand, Nov. 4-7,
`2014.
`International Advisory Board, 6th International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL-6), Jeju, Korea, June 16-
`20, 2015.
`Invited Expert, meeting of the International Council for Science Project “COncepts and termiNology IN
`Crystal Engineering” (CONvINCE), Como, Italy, August 30, 2015.
`International Advisory Committee, Collaborative Conference on Crystal Growth (3CG 2015), Hong Kong,
`China, Dec. 14-17, 2015.
`• Advisory Board, International Symposium on Ionic Liquids (ISOIL_2016), Mumbai, India, Jan. 21-22,
`2016.
`International Advisory Committee, Energy Materials Nanotechnology Meeting on Cellulose (EMN 2016),
`Taipei, Taiwan, March 8-11, 2016.
`• Scientific Advisory Board, 26th EUCHEM Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids, Vienna, Austria,
`July 3-8, 2016.
`• Organizing Committee, Molecules, Materials, Medicines (M3), Solomons Island, MD, May 14-17, 2016.
`• Steering Committee, International Conference on Seawater Uranium Recovery, University of Maryland,
`College Park, MD, July 19-22, 2016.
`International Steering Committee, 5th Asian-Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquids & Green Processes: Green
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`Books Edited:
`1. Aqueous Biphasic Separations: Biomolecules to Metal Ions; Rogers, R. D.; Eiteman, M. A., Eds.; Plenum:
`New York, 1995; 191 pp.
`2. Metal-Ion Separation and Preconcentration, Progress and Opportunities; Dietz, M. L.; Bond, A. H.;
`Rogers, R. D., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 716, American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1999;
`418 pp.
`3. Crystal Engineering, Rogers, R. D.; Zaworotko, M. J., Eds.; Transactions of the American Crystallographic
`Association, Vol. 33; American Crystallographic Association: Buffalo, NY, 1999; 177 pp.
`4. Calixarenes for Separations; Lumetta, G.; Rogers, R. D.; Gopalan, A. S., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series
`757, American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2000; 366 pp.
`Ionic Liquids; Industrial Applications to Green Chemistry, Rogers, R. D.; Seddon, K. R. (Eds.); ACS
`Symposium Series 818; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2002; 474 pp.
`6. Green Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids, NATO Science Series II. Mathematics, Physics and
`Chemistry – Vol. 92, Rogers, R. D.; Seddon, K. R.; Volkov, S. (Eds.); Kluwer: Dordrecht, 2003; 553 pp.
`Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents: Progress and Prospects, Rogers, R. D.; Seddon, K. R. (Eds.); ACS
`Symposium Series 856; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2003; 599 pp.
`Ionic Liquids IIIA: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities - Properties and Structure,
`Rogers, R. D.; Seddon, K. R. (Eds.); ACS Symposium Series 901; American Chemical Society:
`Washington, DC, 2005; 334 pp.
`Ionic Liquids IIIB: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities - Transformations and
`Processes, Rogers, R. D.; Seddon, K. R. (Eds.); ACS Symposium Series 902; American Chemical Society:
`Washington, DC, 2005; 397 pp.
`10. Ionic Liquids in Polymer Systems: Solvents, Additives, and Novel Applications, Brazel, C. S.; Rogers, R. D.
`(Eds.); ACS Symposium Series 913; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2005; 206 pp.
`11. Ionic Liquids IV Not Just Solvents Anymore, Brennecke, J. F.; Rogers, R. D.; Seddon K. R. (Eds.); ACS
`Symposium S