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David A. Tirrell, Ph.D. Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology David A. Tirrell, Ph.D., received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT and the University of Massachusetts, respectively. Dr. Tirrell was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie-Mellon University, and then returned to the University of Massachusetts, where he was Director of the Materials Research Laboratory and Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering. Dr. Tirrell currently serves as Division Chair for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech. He has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland, at the Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at the Institut Curie in Paris. Dr. Tirrell is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Tirrell was Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, and has served on the editorial boards of Macromolecules, ChemBioChem, Accounts of Chemical Research, Chemical and Engineering News, and several other journals. Dr. Tirrell chaired the 1994 Gordon Research Conference on Polymers in Biosystems and the 1995 Gordon Conference on Chemistry of Supramolecules and Assemblies. | 