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Cathleen Crudden is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Queen's University, Canada. She is also the Scientific Director of the Carbon to Metal Coating Institute and holds a cross-appointment at Nagoya University's Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), where she leads a full-time satellite lab. Her research focuses on organic chemistry, nanomaterials, and catalysis, particularly exploring interactions between organic compounds and metals to develop novel materials and catalysts for pharmaceuticals and biosensors.
Education: Ph.D. in Chemistry (1996) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.Sc. from the University of Ottawa (1994), and B.Sc. from the University of Toronto (1989). She has held positions at the University of New Brunswick (1996–2002) and Queen's University since 2002. Awards include the 2019 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Metal Organic Chemistry.
Research interests include N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) functionalization of surfaces, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, and the design of nanoclusters for biomedical applications. She supervises postdoctoral researchers like Tetyana Levchenko and collaborates globally on projects such as corrosion-resistant coatings and electrochemical sensors.
Key achievements include pioneering work on NHC-stabilized gold nanoclusters and their applications in imaging/therapy, as well as the development of surface-functionalization techniques for diverse materials. Her lab's work spans organic synthesis, materials science, and catalysis, with an emphasis on practical industrial and biomedical solutions.
