Christopher Hadad

Christopher M. Hadad is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio State University. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1987 and then completed his Ph.D. in organic chemistry as a Hertz Foundation fellow under the guidance of Professor Kenneth B. Wiberg at Yale University. After an NSF post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado (Boulder) with Professor Charles H. DePuy, he joined the faculty of The Ohio State University as an assistant professor in 1994. In 2006, he was promoted to full professor, was the vice chair for undergraduate studies in the Department of Chemistry from 2006–2011, served the department as the interim chair in 2007, and served the College as Associate Dean (2011–2014) and then Dean (2014–2018) of the Natural and Mathematical Sciences division of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has been a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and has been provided generous funding over the years by the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and other federal, private, and commercial sponsors.