Amar Flood Awarded IU Grant to Commercialize Work

Congratulations to Amar Flood, Professor of Chemistry, who was recently awarded $25,000 from the IU Innovation and Commercialization Office’s Gap Fund, which will aid his research regarding anti-corrosion, bringing the project one step closer to commercialization.

This exciting award was featured in a recent IU Today news release.

Professor Flood received his B.Sc. with 1st Class Honors in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Otago with Professor Keith C. Gordon. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 2002 to 2005 with Sir Fraser Stoddart.

To date, he has authored over 180 journal articles, eight book chapters and has made more than 200 invited and contributed presentations at national and international conferences in the field of supramolecular chemistry. He has served on the organizing committee for three international conferences including the 2013 International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) and the 2017 GRC on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors. He received Indiana University Trustees Teaching Awards (2008, 2010, and 2025), an NSF CAREER Award (2009), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (2010), the Award for Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry by Wiley, the inaugural Cram Lehn Pedersen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (2011), the American Chemical Society R.A. Glenn Award (2022), and was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in 2024. He was the James F. Jackson Professor 2014-2022 and Luther Dana Waterman Professor 2015-2020.