Michael A. Brook
Brook is an expert in silicon, silica and
silicone chemistry. He wrote the solely authored book Silicon in Organic,
Organometallic and Polymer Chemistry (Wiley) in 2000
and was Americas editor of Silicon Chemistry. His
main interests revolve around the application of silicon
chemistry to materials science, particularly in interfacial
control for biomedical applications. Currently, his research
has three main axes: manipulation of silicone elastomers for
improved biocompatibility (including drug delivery and surface
properties), making silicones 'greener' by binding them to
natural materials, and developing synthetic strategies to
create high molecular weight silicones with explicit
structural control.
Honors and Awards
Prof. Brook has been recognized with honours and awards for both his research and teaching accomplishments. Brook was made a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University in 2017, an honour given to no more that 2% of the faculty. He won the 2017 Macromolecular Engineering and Science Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada and is the Frederic Stanley Kipping Awardee for Organosilicon Chemistry, managed by the ACS, in 2016. He was nominated 7 times by the McMaster student union for a teaching award and won twice, and was winner of the President's Award for Instruction. He has been a visiting professor at 6 different universities (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland; Adelaide, Australia; Lyon, France; Bordeaux, France; Toulouse, France and Amsterdam, The Netherlands). He has been honoured to receive the following awards: CSIRO Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Melbourne Australia (2011); ETS Walton Visiting Research Professor (Science Foundation Ireland)(2007); Killam Fellowship (Canada Council of the Arts)(2003-2004); The Synergy Award, Conference Board of Canada, NSERC (with Mark R. McDermott and Connaught Laboratories, now Sanofi-aventis)(1996); Dutch National Science Foundation Foreign Researchers Award (NWO Bezoekersbeurs)(1992-93).
Brook's (Abridged) Curriculum Vitae
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Faculty
Email: mabrook
at mcmaster.ca
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Mailing address:
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McMaster University
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