Steve Barlow

Role in SPECS: synthesis of redox-active molecules with properties tuned for use as probes of polymer electrodes and as dopants, cross linkers for polymer stabilization

Steve Barlow was born and grew up in Hampshire and Dorset in southern England. He received his BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1992. His received D.Phil. in 1996, also from Oxford, following research on the redox and magnetic properties of organometallic sandwich compounds under the supervision of Professor Dermot O'Hare. He was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech (1996-1998) with Seth Marder, working on organometallic and organic materials with interesting non-linear optical and charge-transport properties. He was then a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford (1998-2001), before returning to the U.S. as a research scientist at the University of Arizona (2001-2003) and then at Georgia Institute of Technology (2003-2021), before moving to the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021. His broad research interests concerns the synthesis and study of organic and metal-organic compounds relevant to materials, either directly as compounds that can be used in application-related demonstrations, or indirectly, as model compounds. He is particularly interested in redox, electronic, and optical properties and how these properties are connected to electronic structure.