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Vincent Pecoraro
 Vincent Pecoraro MMPEI Faculty Fellow |
Professor Pecoraro received his B.S. in Biochemistry from UCLA and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He served as an NIH Postdoctoral fellow in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In 1984, Professor joined the faculty in Chemistry at the University of Michigan and rose through the ranks (Assoc. Prof. 1989; Professor, 1992) to become the John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry in 2005. Professor Pecoraro has also held an appointment in the Biophysics Research Division at Michigan and is an adjunct professor at the University of Paris, 11 in Orsay.
Professor Pecoraro has numerous honors including be selected as a G.D. Searle Scholar, a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He has received the Alexander Von Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientists, the ACS Akron Section Award for Excellence in Chemistry and the Faculty Recognition Award and Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences at the University of Michigan.
He has served as Associate Editor of the journal Inorganic Chemistry since 1994, on the Advisory Board of ACS Books and as a Board Member of the ACS/Petroleum Research Fund for 6 years.
He has published over 200 articles in the scientific literature. Professor Pecoraro’s research interests are varied, ranging from de Novo design of small metalloproteins to preparing synthetic models of metalloenzyme active sites. He is a leading expert on the process of photosynthetic water oxidation chemistry and developing catalysts for hydrogen peroxide and superoxide decomposition. He has ongoing studies to understand the mechanisms of toxicity of heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic.
In addition to these biological interests, Professor Pecoraro maintains a program in supramolecular chemistry which has developed new single molecule magnets, chiral compartments for substrate recognition in soft solids and microporous, chiral materials with high metal densities.
Dr. Vincent Pecoraro is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.