Associate Professor of Chemistry at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, USA. Undergraduate at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Undergraduate research with Prof. Jon C. Clardy at Cornell and Dreyfus Summer Research program in 1979 with Prof. William J. Evans, University of Chicago (now at U. of California-Irvine). Graduate work in inorganic chemistry with the late Prof. Russell S. Drago at U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL and thence at U. Florida, Gainesville, FL, whence Ph.D. was awarded in December 1984. NIH postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Industrial and non-tenure-track academic research 1986 - 1990. Assistant Professor at Roosevelt 1990 - 1995, Associate Professor, 1995 - present. Teaching in general chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and biochemistry. Research in coordination chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry. Long-time collaboration (since 1997) with Electron Magnetic Resonance Facility at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL, "MagLab"), Tallahassee, FL, USA. Continuing collaboration with Prof. Hoffman's group at Northwestern. Guest Editor (with Prof. Harald Schwalbe, Uni-Frankfurt, Germany) of Special Issue of ChemBioChem in memory of Prof. Ivano Bertini, U. of Florence, Italy. Organizer or co-organizer of several symposia at ACS National Meetings and one at the International Conference of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanins.