Prof. Matthew Allen

Matthew J. Allen is a Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department at Wayne State University. Matt began his research career at Purdue University where he earned his B.S. in chemistry while researching the functionalization of porous silicon surfaces with Jillian Buriak. Throughout his undergraduate career he also had the great opportunity to be an intern at Eli Lilly and Company where he was trained by organic chemists including Tony Zhang and Richard Berglund. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology under the mentorship of Thomas Meade¬ in the area of cellular delivery of gadolinium complexes. Matt was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Laura Kiessling and Ronald Raines at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining Wayne State as an Assistant Professor. His laboratory studies the aqueous chemistry of the f-block elements and related areas.