Theodore Betley
Ted was born in 1977 in Livonia, Michigan. In 1999 he received his
B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, he
worked under Prof. Mark M. Banaszak-Holl on the sythesis of novel germylene complexes
and later on the AFM detection of polyamidoamine dendrimers as cancer thearapuetic
delivery agents. Also as an undergraduate, he performed research in the Basic
Chemicals and Intermediates Technology division at Exxon in Baytown, Tx under the direction
of Dr. Michael C. Bradford. Ted later worked at the IBM Center for Research located in
Yorktown Heights, NY under the direction of Dr. Christopher B. Murray where they studied the synthesis of
cobalt colloids for applications in high-density recording media. In the fall of 2000, Ted joined the labs of
Prof. Jonas C. Peters at the California Institute of Technology. There he studied the
reaction chemistry of low-valent Fe species in trigonally-coordinated geometries, investigating
chemistry relevant to dinitrogen activation. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 2005, Ted moved
to MIT to study under Prof. Daniel G. Nocera focusing on the synthesis of
late transition metal, high-valent oxo complexes in the context of chemical energy conversion research. In July of 2007, Ted started as an Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the Chemistry
and Chemical Biology department at Harvard University.
Awards
2005 NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT
2005 DIC Young Investigator Award, ACS
2005 Herbert Newby McCoy Award, California Institute of Technology
2000 DOD Predoctoral Fellowship, California Institute of Technology
