Scott Shaw has officially been promoted to Full Professor as of July 2024. He has been with the University of Iowa Department of Chemistry since 1991 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. Professor Shaw has served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Chemistry since 2021. In 2020, he served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the ACS Journal of Analytical Chemistry. He was also named a University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) Dean's Scholar in 2019.

"Research in the Shaw group combines modern analytical techniques with materials and physical chemistry to create new understanding of the molecular-level behavior at interfaces. Current and start-up projects span chemical systems that are both fundamentally intriguing and extremely relevant to current needs of our technology-driven society. Advances in these areas will allow predictive design of new, improved devices in a range of applications including energy production, polymeric materials, corrosion science, environmental remediation, microfluidics, and biomedical implanted devices. A few selected projects are outlined below. Experimental techniques encompass surface-sensitive optical spectroscopies, non-linear spectroscopies, probe microscopies, electrochemical methods, tensiometry, and novel sample preparation techniques, all targeted at revealing the interfacial properties of otherwise opaque chemical systems."

For more information on Professor Shaw's research, visit his group's website.