Yves Rubin, Professor

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
405 Hilgard Avenue 
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569

Telephone: (310) 206-2338
FAX: (310) 206-7649
e-mail: rubin@chem.ucla.edu

Honors and Awards:

• AAP Faculty Appreciation Award (UCLA), 2008

• Glenn T. Seaborg Award, 2002

• Herbert Newby McCoy Award, 1999 

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1998

• Ruzicka Prize (National Award for a Young Swiss Chemist), 1997

• NSF Young Investigator Award (NYI), 1994

• Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, 1994

• UCLA Faculty Career Development Award, 1994

• Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1992

• Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1991-1992

• Saul Winstein Dissertation Award, 1990

• Products Research Corporation Research Award, 1989

• UCLA Departmental Teaching Assistant Award, 1989

Recent symposia attended:

• PRiME 2008, 214th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society; Nanostructure and Function of Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, and Related Materials Symposium, Honolulu, October 12-17, 2008
• 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, April 6 –10, 2008
• International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (ISRIUM), Ascona, Switzerland, August 19-24, 2007 (conference website)
• 12th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-12), Awaji Island, Japan, July 22-27, 2007 (conference website)
• 211th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society; Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes Symposium, Chicago, May 6-11, 2007
• Special Lecture at the 29th Fullerene Nanotubes General Symposium Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, July 26, 2005
• Pacifichem 2005, International Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2005
• International Symposium on Carbon-Rich Organic Materials, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, September 29-30, 2003  (conference website)
• 1st International Symposium on Future-Oriented Interdisciplinary Materials Science (FIMS2003), Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, February 28 - March 1
• Gordon Research Conference in Japan on Organic Structures and Properties, Spring-8, Hyogo, Japan, July 28-August 2, 2002 (conference website)
• 221st National ACS National Meeting, Symposium on Fullerenes, San Diego, CA, April 1 - 5, 2001
• Pacifichem 2000, International Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14-19, 2000
• U.S. - German - French Workshop on Carbon-Rich Organometallic Compounds, Erlangen, Germany, July 16-20, 2000  (conference website)
• SMARTON 3 Workshop (pictures!), Hindsgavl Castle, Middlefart, Denmark, May 25-28, 2000
• 196th Meeting of the Electrochemical SocietyFullerene Science and Technology Symposium, Honolulu, Oct. 17-22, 1999
• Fullerenes '99 (pictures!), Chateau de Bonas, Toulouse, France, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 1999
• 218th National ACS Meeting, Symposium on Fullerenes, New Orleans, Lousiana, Aug. 22-26, 1999
• 4th International Symposium on Functional Dyes, Functions of ?-Electrons Systems, Osaka, Japan, May 31-June 4, 1999
• Symposium on New Developments of the Chemistry of ?-Electron Systems,Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, Matsuyama, Sept. 15-18, 1998
• Gordon Research Conference in Japan on Organic Structures and Properties, Fukuoka, Japan, Sept. 6-11, 1998  (conference website)
• 216th National ACS Meeting, Symposium on Carbon-Rich Superstructures, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug. 23-27, 1998
• 9th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-9), Hong Kong, Aug. 2-7, 1998
• 193rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society Fullerenes: Chemistry, Physics, and New Directions XI, San Diego, May 3 - 8, 1998
• 215th National ACS Meeting, James Flack Norris Symposium in honor of Peter J. Stang Dallas, Texas, March 29 - April 2, 1998

last updated 1-2-2009