Leonard R. MacGillivray is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on processes of molecular self-assembly, particularly its application to organic synthesis. In 2002, he was awarded a 2002 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Research Corporation Research Innovation Award. In 2004, he received the Young Investigator Award of the Inter-American Photochemical Society and the Etter Early Career Award of the American Crystallographic Association. Dr. MacGillivray was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2006 and received a 2007 Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. He has published 140 manuscripts and sits on six editorial boards