David Cliffel, PhD

David Cliffel is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University where he has secondary appointments in the Department of Pediatrics and with the Diabetes Research and Training Center within VUMC. He is a faculty fellow in the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, and a member of the Steering Committee in the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering where he oversees the Biomolecular Nanostructures Laboratory Facility. He received a BS in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1998 from the University of Texas at Austin working with Professor Allen J. Bard as an NSF and ACS graduate fellow. He did his postdoctoral work with Professor Royce W. Murray at the University of North Carolina working on the electrochemistry of monolayer protected clusters. He received the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Young Investigator Award in 2005 and an ACS Younger Chemistry Committee Leadership Development Award in 2004. He currently serves a standing member of the NIH Review Panel for Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine until the end of 2014, the SEAC Board of Directors until 2016, and two steering committees for the Electrochemical Society in physical and analytical electrochemistry and in organic and biological electrochemistry until 2015. His current research concentrates on the electrochemistry and analytical chemistry of nanoparticles and photosynthetic proteins, and his group has invented the multianalyte microphysiometer for metabolic profiling and toxicology.