Justin J. Wilson
University of California Santa Barbara
Biography
Justin J. Wilson obtained his BS in chemistry from U.C. Berkeley in 2008 and his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 2013 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working in the lab of Professor Stephen J. Lippard. Following a position as a Seaborg Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he began his independent career as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University in 2015 and moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2024. During his independent career at Cornell, he has received many awards including the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the 2019 Cottrell Scholar Award, and the 2020 Stiefel Lecture Award at the Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference.
The Wilson Group is engaged in research focusing on bioinorganic, f-element, and radiopharmaceutical chemistry. This research is interdisciplinary with a large emphasis on biomedical applications of inorganic chemistry and metal ion separations.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers