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Dr. Javier Vela, assistant professor of chemistry, received his
B.S. degree with Honors from UNAM in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D.
degree working with Prof. Patrick L. Holland at the University of
Rochester in 2005. He was a postdoctoral research associate with
Prof. Richard F. Jordan at the University of Chicago from 2005 to
2006, and a Director's postdoctoral fellow in the team of Jennifer
A. Hollingsworth and Victor I. Klimov at Los Alamos National
Laboratory from 2007 to 2009. He received the ACS Inorganic Young
Investigator Award in 2006. He joined the faculty at Iowa State
University in August 2009.
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