Michael Rose

Michael Rose is a professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin and director of the Center for Electrochemistry. He earned a B.S. in fermentation science from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After working at Roche Biosciences and completing postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology with Harry B. Gray and Nathan S. Lewis, he joined the UT Austin faculty in 2012. Rose has received numerous honors, including an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, an ORAU Ralph Powe Junior Faculty Award and designation as a Cottrell Scholar.

Rose's primary interests span several projects in the field of synthetic inorganic chemistry. He has established his research group in the areas of synthetic bio-inorganic chemistry, solar fuels & semiconductor functionalization, and heavy main group/1st row metal interactions and magnetism.