Dr. Ronald K. Castellano
Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor & Chair
Prof. Castellano received his B.S. degree (chemistry) from Gettysburg College in 1995 and his Ph.D. (organic chemistry) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 (with Prof. Julius Rebek, Jr.). For the next two years he was an NSF International Research Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of the late Prof. François Diederich at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. Prof. Castellano joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 2002. In UF Chemistry he has served as Head of the Organic Division (2012–2024) and became Department Chair in 2024.
Selected Activities
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry (Supramolecular Chemistry section), 2024–
Organizer, UF Chemathon, 2010–2024
Faculty Advisory, UF Chemistry Club, 2009–2021
Selected Awards
UF Doctoral Dissertation Advising/Mentoring Award, 2023–2024
IUPAC Young Observer (one of 11 from USA), 2013
UF-HHMI Science for Life Distinguished Mentor, 2011
Journal of Materials Science Emerging Investigator, 2007
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2006–2011
Research Corporation Research Innovation Award, 2003
Current Grad Students and Research Fellows
