Stuart Rowan

Stuart J. Rowan FRS (born 1969) is a Scottish chemist.

Stuart Rowan FRS
Born	1969 (age 55–56) Edinburgh, Scotland
Academic background
Education	University of Glasgow (BSc, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	David D. MacNicol
Academic work
Discipline	Chemistry
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of California, Los Angeles Case Western Reserve University University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory

Early life and education

Rowan was born in Edinburgh on October 16, 1969, and raised in Troon, South Ayrshire. He completed a Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the University of Glasgow.

Rowan earned his doctorate under the direction of David D. MacNicol in 1995.

In 1994, before Rowan had finished his doctoral studies in Glasgow, he began working for Jeremy Sanders at the University of Cambridge.

In 1996, Rowan was named a research associate for Girton College, Cambridge.

Career

In 1998 Rowan left the United Kingdom to continue his postdoctoral research with Fraser Stoddart at the University of California, Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

He then joined the Case Western Reserve University's Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering in 1999 as an assistant professor, he was promoted to associate professor in 2005, and full professor in 2008, and the Kent Hale Smith Professor of Engineering.^[1]

In 2016 Rowan joined The University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering as well as that university's Department of Chemistry,^[2] and accepted an appointment as the Barry L. MacLean Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise in 2018.^[3] While on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Rowan also held a position at the Argonne National Laboratory.^[2]

Rowan received National Science Foundation awards^[relevant?] in 2002,^{[1][dead link]} 2007,^{[1][dead link]} and 2016.^[4] Rowan received a fellowship^{[clarification needed]} from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010.^{[1][dead link]}

Rowan is the founding deputy editor of the journal ACS Macro Letters,^[5][6] and succeeded Timothy P. Lodge as editor in chief in 2018.^[7][8]

Rowan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.^[9] He is also a fellow of the American Chemical Society.^[2][3]