Contact
Email: Jeff.Bandar@colostate.edu
Phone: (970) 495-2432
Office: Chemistry Research Building Room 315
Biography
Jeff Bandar was born in Saint Cloud, Minnesota and received his B.A. from Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN in 2009. That year he began graduate studies with Tristan H. Lambert at Columbia University, where his research focused on the use of aromatic ions as design elements in catalysts, reactions and polymeric materials. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in 2014, Jeff began postdoctoral studies with Stephen L. Buchwald at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he advanced the use of copper catalysts for the enantioselective functionalization of olefins. Jeff's mentored work was supported by NSF, NDSEG and NIH fellowships, and received recognitions such as the Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award and the Sigma Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation Award. Jeff started his research lab at Colorado State University in 2017, where his group focuses on creating new ways to control chemical processes with applications in organic synthesis and beyond. Jeff was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024.
Recent Recognitions
CSU College of Natural Sciences Early Career Teaching and Mentoring Award (2021)
Cottrell Scholar Award (2021)
NIH MIRA Award (2020)
NSF CAREER Award (2020)
ACS PRF New Investigator Award (2019)
Thieme Journals Award (2019)