[2] He is the James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Carver Biotechnology Center (University of Illinois) and was involved in the genome sequencing of several organisms.
Serving as the chair of dissertation committees at the University of Illinois, he has graduated approximately 60 students with PhD degrees.
As of 2019 his publication record includes over 400 journal articles, with an h-index estimated to be in the 60s or 70s.
[8] Thereafter, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University with Richard Zare (chemist) and Richard Scheller (neuroscientist) before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1991.