Russell J. Boyd
Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Education
1967, BSc, UBC
1971, PhD., Theoretical Chemistry, McGill University
Affiliations
- Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, 1983
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, 1996-99, Vice-President, 2006-07, President, 2007-08
- Member of the American Chemical Society
- Member and Founding President of the Canadian Association of Theoretical Chemists
- Member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1988-98
- Member of the Board of the Dalhousie University Foundation, 1994-99
- Member of the Scientific Board of World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, 2002-
Honours and awards
- 1983, APICS/Fraser Medal (awarded annually to recognize outstanding research work carried out in the Atlantic provinces by a young scientist or engineer, first and only chemist to receive this award)
- 1986 CNC-IUPAC Award (awarded annually by the Canadian National Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)
- 1986, Fellow of the World Association of Theoretical Chemists
- 1989-90, Dalhousie University Senior Killam Fellow
- 1997-02, Faculty of Science Killam Professor
- 2001- Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry
Publications
Dr. Boyd has published more than 220 peer-reviewed papers in computational and theoretical chemistry including two single author papers in Nature. Citations of his papers place him in the top 0.4 per cent of the world's chemists. He has published nine book chapters by invitation and co-edited with C.F. Matta 'The Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules' published by Wiley-VCH in 2007.
Research Presentations
Mentorship
Dr. Boyd is proud of the number of excellent young scientists who received a significant part of their training in his research group, The Computational Quantum Chemistry Group. Five of his former PhD students and four of his former postdoctoral fellows hold tenure-track or tenured positions in Canadian universities. A similar number hold comparable positions in universities in the U.S. and Europe.
Website
Faculty page, Department of Chemistry
E-mail: Dr. Russell Boyd |
Collaborative research
Dr. Boyd is focused on theoretical chemistry with emphasis on the analysis of electron correlation and electron density distributions and on the application of quantum mechanical methods to the study of reaction mechanisms and molecular interactions. Contemporary theoretical methods are used and developed to study a broad range of problems in chemistry, chemical physics and biochemistry.
Many projects involve collaboration with experimentalists and yield information which is unattainable by any other method. Such applications often lead to suggestions for new experiments and for refinements of the models upon which the theories are based. The strong local and international collaborative aspect of the research is reflected in the titles of recently published papers. |
