Education:
1961 – 1965 B.Sc. (Hons.) University of British Columbia
1965 – 1970 Ph.D (Physical Chemistry) University of British
Columbia
1970 – 1972 Research Associate, School of Chemical Sciences,
University of Illinois
1972-1974 Post-doctorate Fellow, Division of Chemistry
National Research Council of Canada

Career:
National Research Council of Canada Chemistry Division
Colloid and Clathrate Chemistry Section:
1974-1978 - Assistant Research Officer
1978 – 1982 - Associate Research Officer
1982 – 1990 - Senior Research Officer
1986 – 1990 - Head of Section

National Research Council of Canada – Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences:
1990 – 1997 - Senior Research Officer
1998 – Present - Principal Research Officer
1997 – Present - Program Leader, Functional Materials Program

1982 – 1983 – Visiting Scientist, Chemistry Department, University of
British Columbia
1988 – Present – Adjunct Research Professor, Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry
Institute, Ottawa, ON
1996 – Present – Adjunct Professor, Colorado School of Mines
2000 – Present – Adjunct Professor, Queens University, Kingston ON

Research Interests:
Chemical applications of NMR spectroscopy. Design and structural
characterization of solid materials, especially clathrates, inclusion compounds, zeolites and other supramolecular solids. Gas hydrate chemistry. Aspects of soil, coal and oil sands chemistry. Application of hyperpolarized noble gases to MNR and MRI.

Awards:
Barringer Research Award in Spectroscopy 1998
Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada 2000

Activities: Editorial Activities:
1988-1990 – Guest Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Inclusion Phenomena
1988 – 2000 – Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Inclusion
Phenomena
1991 – Present – Member, Editorial Board, Supramolecular Chemistry
1992 – 1996 – Co-Editor, Physical Methods, Volume 8 of Comprehensive
Supramolecular Chemistry
1994 – 1995 – Guest Editor, Special Issue of “Supramolecular
Chemistry
1997 – 1998 – Associate Editor, Proceedings of the 11th International
Clay Conference
1999 – 2000 – Co-Editor, Proceedings of the 3rd International Gas
Hydrate Conference
2001 – Present – Member, Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry
2001 – Present – Member, Editorial Board, J. Supramolecular Chemistry

Organizing Committees:
1992 – 1994 Chairman, Organizing Committee – 8th International
Symposium on Molecular Recognition and Inclusion (held in 1994)
1993 – 1994 Co-Organizer, Gas Research Institute Workshop on
Natural Gas Hydrates, Ottawa
1993 – 1997 Member, Organizing Committee – 11th International Clay
Conference, Ottawa
1994 – 1996 Member, International Advisory Committee, 9th Inter-
national Symposium on Molecular Recognition & Inclusion (Held
in 1996 – Lyon, France)
1995 – 1996 Member, International Advisory Committee – 5th Inter-
national Summer school on Supramolecular Chemistry (1996 – Poland)
1996 – 1997 Coordinator, Canada – Japan Joint Science & Technology
Workshop on Natural Gas Hydrates (1997 Tsukuba, Japan)
1996 – 1998 Member, International Advisory Committee – 10th Inter-
national Symposium on Molecular Recognition and Inclusion
(1998 – Warsaw)
1998 – 1999 Member, Organizing Committee, 3rd International Conference on Gas Hydrates (Salt Lake City)
1999 – 2000 Member, Scientific Committee – Access to Nanoporous
Materials 2 (2000 – Banff)
1999-2000 Member, International Advisory Committee – 11th Inter-
national Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry (2000 – Japan)
1998 – 2000 Symposium Organizer, NMR Symposium at PACRIM
(2000 – Hawaii)
2000 - Member, International Scientific Committee – 4th Inter-
national Conference on Gas Hydrates (2002 – Yokohama)
2000 - Member, International Scientific Committee – 12th Inter-
national Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry (2002 – Jerusalem)
2001 - Member, Organizing Committee, Access to Nanoporous
Materials 3 (2002 – Ottawa)

Granting Bodies:
1995 Member, NSERC Collaborative Grants Panel
1993 – 1998 Member, NATO Special Programme Panel on Supra-
molecular Chemistry
2000 - Member, US Department of Energy Panel on Carbon
Sequestration
2001 - Member, CODATA Task Group on “Data on Natural
Gas Hydrates”

International Lectureships & Fellowships:
Lecturer – 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th International Summer School on Supra-
molecular Chemistry (1991-1996)
Lecturer – NATO Advanced Study Institutes on Supramolecular
Crystallography (Italy 1995) and Crystal Engineering (Digby NS 1996)
Lecturer – NATO Advanced Research Workshops on Crystals as Supermolecules (1995 Italy) Large Supramolecular Assemblies
(1997 – Greece)
Albright & Wilson Visiting Fellow, University of Warwick – 2000
Visiting Scientist, Hokkaido National Industrial Research Institute
(2001)

University-Based Activities:
Graduate Supervisions: Masters, 3 complete, 3 in progress, Doctors –
2 complete, 1 in progress
Thesis External Examinations: University of Guelph, University of BC,
Dalhousie University, Queens University, University of Ottawa, MacMaster University, University of Illinois (Chicago), Simon Fraser
University.
Expert consultant for promotion cases: University of Minnesota,
University of Innsbruck, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University
of Waterloo, University of Warwick.

Refereeing & Reviewing:
Journals: Nature, J Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem, Chem, Eur. J. J. Phys. Chem. Chem, Mater., J. Chem. Phys. Langmuir, Inorg Chem Canad. J. Chem, J. Chem, Soc. Chem. Commun., J. Incl. Phenom, Supramol. Chem. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst, Carbon J. Magn. Reson. AIChE J., Can. J. Chem. Eng. Ind. Eng. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. Solids, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin.

Granting Agencies:
NSERC, NSF(US), DOE(US), ESPRC (UK), NATO, Granting Councils
in Australia and Hong Kong

Externally Funded Research:
NSERC Individual 2000-2004
NSERC/NRC/Industry Partnership–Hyperpolarized Noble Gases-1997-99
NSERC Collaborative Health Research – Functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging of Lungs using Hyperpolarized Noble Gases. 1999-2002
Syncrude Canada – Catalyst characterization and improvement 1998-2000
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co – Gas Hydrate Formation in porous media. 1998-2000
Geological Survey of Canada – Characterization of Gas Hydrate from the
Mallik Drilling Site – 1998-1999
Institute of Applied Energy (Japan) – Spectoscopic characterization of
methane and carbon dioxide hydrates. 1998 – 2001
NSERC/NRC/Industry Partnership – Gas hydrate inhibition by protein
antifreezes. 2000-2003
Shell International – Nucleation and hydrate phases in condensates. 2000

Publications:
360 Publications, 4 Patents, 50 Invited Talks and Seminars
(in last five years)