Justin was born in 1973 and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Justin received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1994, where he studied the self-assembly of discotic liquid crystals under the direction of Professor Gary Schuster.
Justin moved to Caltech to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry under the direction of Dennis Dougherty. Justin's Ph.D. work spanned several areas, including studies of molecular neuroscience (with Henry Lester) and computational studies of the cation-π interaction. CaPTURE, a program to identify cation-π interactions in protein structures, can be found here.
Justin stayed at Caltech as an NIH postdoc with Bob Grubbs and Dave Tirrell, where he developed a water-soluble olefin metathesis catalyst, and synthesized hybrid polymers comprised of genetically engineered proteins and synthetic polymers.
Justin joined the Department of Chemistry at Emory University in 2002 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008.
When not on campus, Justin can often be found in his kitchen, where he cooks reasonably well, or on the golf course, where he is reminded that he shouldn't quit his day job.
AWARDS
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Beckman Young Investigator
Recognized by Phi Beta Kappa for Excellence in Teaching
Research Innovation Award
PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow
SUPPORT
Dreyfus Foundation
Herman Frasch Foundation of the American Chemical Society
NIH-NIGMS
Sloan Foundation
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
TEACHING
Fall 2012: Chemistry 221
(Organic Chemistry I)
Spring 2013: Chemistry 222
(Organic Chemistry II)
COLLABORATORS
Carolyn Bertozzi
Sarah Fortune
Kristala Jones-Prather
Arash Komeili
Ichiro Matsumura
Jessica Seeliger
June Scott
David Weiss
CONTACT
Justin P. Gallivan
Department of Chemistry
Emory University
1515 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
tel 404-712-2171
fax 404-727-6586
justin.gallivan@emory.edu