Robin D. Rogers, from Department of Chemistry and Center for Green Manufacturing of the University of Alabama paid a visit to Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) on July 25, 2011.

During his visit, Mr. Rogers delivered a speech entitled “Ionic Liquids: Unique Environments for f-Element Chemistry”, which attracted more than 100 researchers and graduates to attend.

Dr. Robin D. Rogers obtained both his B.S. in Chemistry (1978, Summa Cum Laude) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry (1982) at The University of Alabama and currently serves as Distinguished Research Professor, Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry, and Director of the Center for Green Manufacturing at UA.  In 2007 he was also Chair of Green Chemistry and Co-Director of QUILL at The Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland (UK) before returning full time to The University of Alabama in 2009.  In 2009, he was named Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Process Engineering in Beijing.