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Nicola Pohl, professor of chemistry and Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering, received her B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1991 and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. Following an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University she joined the faculty at Iowa State University in the fall of 2000 to study protein biocatalysts/metabolic engineering, synthetic and analytical methods, and carbohydrates. She is a member of the Department of Chemistry and the Plant Sciences Institute and was named a Cottrell Scholar of Research Corporation in 2003. Professor Pohl is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2004 and was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2005. In 2008 she received the LAS Master Teacher Award and the LAS Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award from Iowa State University. She serves on the editorial boards of Carbohydrate Research, Organic Reactions, and Chemistry Central Journal and is co-Chair of the 2011 Carbohydrates Gordon Research Conference. She was the 2010 recipient of the Horace S. Isbell Award from the Carbohydrate Division of the American Chemical Society.

Tel : 515-294-2339
Email : npohl [at] iastate [dot] edu