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Biography

Eric Rivard completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Ian Manners in 2004. After NSERC-sponsored postdoctoral work with Professors Jonas Peters (Caltech) and Philip Power (University of California, Davis), and a research stay with Professor Cameron Jones (Monash University), he joined the University of Alberta in 2008 where he is now a Full Professor. He has given over 200 invited lectures worldwide and has published around 150 articles. He was the inaugural 2016 Michael Lappert Lecturer from the RSC, an RCMS Visiting Professor at Nagoya University (2016), an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow (2017), held visiting fellowships in 2015 and 2023 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), was a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University (2023), and won the 2018 Strem Chemicals Award for Pure and Applied Inorganic 浪花直播 (Canadian Society for 浪花直播). The Rivard group studies fundamental low-coordinate and main group chemistry, catalysis, semiconducting material synthesis, and the development of phosphorescent materials and conjugated polymers based on inorganic elements.

RSC affiliations

• Advisory board, Chem Soc Rev