 | Gary Brudvig |
Gary Brudvig, the newly designated Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry,
is noted for his research on the chemistry of water oxidation in plant photosynthesis.
T H I S
Gary Brudvig is appointed
the Eugene Higgins Professor
His laboratory is concerned with examining the molecular basis for energy transduction
in plant photosynthesis. The long-term objective of this research is to develop
an understanding at the molecular level of the conversion of light energy into
chemical energy. One of the primary targets of Brudvig’s research is
the plant enzyme called photosystem II that catalyzes the light-induced oxidation
of water to dioxygen and reduction of quinines to quinols.
Brudvig is the project leader of a team of Yale chemists and other scientists
who, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy, are hoping to improve
the efficiency of solar-energy utilization. Its aim is to attach manganese
complexes to titanium dioxide nanoparticles in order to develop a system that
will efficiently produce renewable fuel using solar energy.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Brudvig earned his Ph.D. at the
California Institute of Technology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1982. In
addition to serving as a professor in and chair of the Department of Chemistry,
he is also a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and is affiliated
with the Yale Center for Green Chemistry.
From 1983 to 1986, Brudvig was a Searle Scholar at Yale. The Searle Scholarship
program supports outstanding work by junior faculty members at select academic
institutions. He was the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar, a distinction
given to “talented young faculty in the chemical sciences,” from
1985 to 1990. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1986-1988.
Brudvig was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.
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