Werner G. Kuhr

Who is Werner G. Kuhr?

Werner G. Kuhr, Vice President of Research, was

professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside.

Professor Kuhr earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Stevens

Institute of Technology (1980-82). He also worked as a research chemist

in analytical development at Merck until 1982. He received his Ph.D. in

Chemistry from Indiana University (1986), then spent one year as a NATO

Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands,

followed by one year as an Ames Lab Postdoctoral Fellow at Iowa State

University. He joined the chemistry faculty at the University of

California, Riverside as an assistant professor (1988), was promoted to

associate professor (1993) and to full professor (1998). His research

has focused on the development of micro- and nano-scale techniques for

the design and characterization of electrochemical devices. Professor

Kuhr has published over 90 scientific papers, delivered over 100

invited lectures at conferences and universities across the world, and

been issued ten U.S. and international patents. He is currently serving

on the board of directors of the Society of Electroanalytical

Chemistry. He founded and served as the director of the UCR

Microfabrication Facility (1999-2002) and was a founding member of the

UCR Genomics Institute. He has been the recipient of a number of awards

including a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National

Science Foundation (1989); a Young Investigator Award from the Society

of Electroanalytical Chemistry (1993); the Jubilee Silver Medal from

the Chromatographic Society, England (1994) and he was named a Tour

Speaker for the Society of Analytical Spectroscopy (1994).