Sergio Granados-Focil
Professor @Clark University
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WORK HISTORY
Professor @Clark University
Worcester, MA, US
Research lead, conceptualized, planned, secured funding and managed 14 multi-year research projects with external funding from feder-al and private sources. The results of these projects have produced 1 U.S. Pa-tent application, 4 Peer-reviewed book chapters, 35+ Peer-reviewed journal arti-cles, 30 invited talks, 73 contributed presentations. Publication details can be found here: mentor and supervisor, supervised 51 researchers (11 Ph.D. students, 5 master\'s students and 35 undergraduate students) through research goals definition, experiment planning and execution, data collection/interpretation, statistical analysis, and publication/dissemination. Instructor, taught polymer science, polymeric biomaterials, introductory and advanced organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, general chemistry and fermentation science. Advised and counseled graduate and undergraduate students to help them pinpoint their educational and career goals.Graduate Program Coordinator, responsible for managing the graduate admissions process in the chemistry department and monitoring the progress of all graduate students enrolled in the Ph.D. and M.S. programs.Elected member and Chair of the Graduate Board, responsible for ensuring the quality of all graduate education at Clark University, continuing program review, and approval of new programs. Elected Secretary of the Faculty (20••••24), kept the minutes of faculty meetings, managed communications between the faculty and University committees, prepared agendas and reports at the direction of the Steering Committee and the Faculty Executive Steering Committee, kept the roster of the faculty, and supervised the nominations and elections of officers and committee members.
EDUCATION
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
B.S., Chemistry
Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT SERGIO GRANADOS-FOCIL
Creative research lead with 20 years of experience in project management, interdisciplinary team collaboration, and proposal writing. Dedicated materials scientist with 25 years of experience designing, synthesizing, and characterizing polymeric structures to answer specific structure-property needs. Strongly committed to talent development and skill building, with 17 years of experience mentoring and training graduate and undergraduate researchers, more than 20 years of experience as a lecturer and lab instructor and 13 years of experience as Institutional leader at professional societies and academic institutions.
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