Gerard ParkinProfessor Gerard (Ged) Parkin joined the faculty of Columbia University as Assistant Professor in 1988 and was promoted to Associate Professor and then to Professor. He served as Chairman of the Department from 1999 – 2002 and has served as Chair of he New York Section of the American Chemical Society, Chair of the Inorganic Chemistry and Catalytic Science Section of the New York Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Organometallic Subdivision of the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry, and Chair of the Gordon Research Conference in Organometallic Chemistry. He is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society. He’s also a Science Advisor on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. His principal research interests are in the areas of synthetic, structural, and mechanistic inorganic chemistry. Read More Read Less