Ian Gould is President's Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. He joined ASU in 1998. He has over 150 refereed publications and an H-index over 50. Current research interests are in organic geochemistry and geochemically inspired green organic chemistry. He also has research programs in understanding student performance in organic chemistry courses and is developing an intelligent online tutoring system for organic chemistry in collaboration with ASU Professor Kurt VanLehn.
Prior to ASU, Professor Gould's doctorate was earned from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom (1980), where he worked with A. A. Gorman on the mechanisms of singlet oxygen reactions. In 1981, he joined N. J. Turro's lab at Columbia University as a postdoctoral researcher and worked on several problems in mechanistic organic chemistry, including the fast reactions of carbenes, ylides and radicals, and chemical reactions in microheterogeneous environments. In 1986 he moved to the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY, where has was a member of the Corporate Research Laboratories, and also the NSF Science and Technology Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer. In Rochester he primarily collaborated with S. Farid on the fundamental aspects of single electron transfer reactions and the reactions of radical ions.