Dr. Leonard MacGillivray Bio

Prof. Leonard R. MacGillivray is currently a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in ‘Crystal Engineering for Green Chemistry and Sustainable Materials’ at the Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Prof. MacGillivray obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Chemistry from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1994. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1998, where he held a 1967 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellowship. He then served as a Research Associate at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa from 1998-2000. In 2000, he joined the faculty at the University of Iowa (UI) and was promoted to Professor in 2010. In 2019, he was appointed a UI Collegiate Fellow and served as Departmental Executive Officer from 2019-2023. Prof. MacGillivray has authored over 255 publications, holds 7 patents, given over 210 invited national and international seminars in over 22 countries, and mentored 31 students to the Ph.D. degree. Prof. MacGillivray has received several awards that include a 2007 Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the 2021 ACS Midwest Award. In 2007, Prof. MacGillivray was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and then a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and Fellow of the ACS in 2015.