{"id":6865,"date":"2025-10-23T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/?post_type=person&#038;p=6865"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:23:52","slug":"john-gordon","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/person\/john-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Gordon earned his\u00a0B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame. He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland (College Park) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gordon joins UCF from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, NY, where he served as Chair\u00a0(Division Director)\u00a0of the Chemistry Division\u00a0there. In that role, he oversaw fundamental chemistry research, advanced technologies for energy conversion and storage, fostered institutional partnerships, and helped to strengthen scientific collaborations. Prior to BNL, he spent almost three decades\u00a0at LANL,\u00a0where he was appointed to\u00a0the rank of Laboratory Fellow. While at LANL, he held\u00a0several leadership positions including Deputy Director of the National Security Education Center (NSEC), Associate Director of the G. T. Seaborg Institute for\u00a0Transactinium\u00a0Science, and Group Leader of the Inorganic, Isotope, and Actinide Chemistry Group (C-IIAC) within Chemistry Division.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gordon brings extensive management and technical leadership experience as well as decades of research expertise in inorganic\/organometallic chemistry and in catalysis for energy applications. His internationally recognized work has focused on developing and advancing clean, sustainable energy solutions and renewable energy chemistries.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gordon\u00a0was a recipient of a\u00a0US Department of Energy Hydrogen Program R&amp;D Award (for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydrogen.energy.gov\/library\/annual-review\/annual_review22_awards\">work on improved catalysts for the dehydrogenation of high capacity hydrogen carriers<\/a>). His achievements have been recognized via the LANL Fellows Prize, and by election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the American Institute of Chemists (AIC). He was an Invited Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and was recently elected and inducted into Scotland&#8217;s National Academy (The Royal Society of Edinburgh) with appointment to the rank of <a href=\"https:\/\/rse.org.uk\/fellowship\/fellow\/dr-john-gordon-52137\/\">International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh<\/a> (IntFRSE).<\/p>\n<p>Strongly committed to outreach and mentoring, Dr. Gordon has supported the development of early-career scientists and has supervised\u00a0numerous\u00a0students and postdoctoral researchers. He has published more than 115 papers, contributed to 17 patents across diverse chemistry applications, and\u00a0has served in many professional service capacities. He has served on numerous advisory boards<em> (Inorganic Chemistry<\/em>\u00a0(ACS), the <em>European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry<\/em> (<em>EurJIC<\/em>,\u00a0Wiley)\u00a0and\u00a0is\u00a0currently a\u00a0member of the Advisory Board of the RSC journal\u00a0<em>Energy Advances<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. John Gordon earned his\u00a0B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame. He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland (College Park) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). 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