Thomas James McCarthy

Distinguished Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA  02139
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, June 1982    Advisor:  George M. Whitesides
Thesis:  Surface Chemistry of Platinum and Polyethylene

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003
B.S. (summa cum laude) in Chemistry, June 1978 Advisor: C. Peter Lillya
Thesis:  Metal-Carbon Bonding in Small Ring Organometallic Complexes

Positions

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 1982 - August 1986

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 1986 - August 1991

Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 1991 - September 2016

Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 2016 - present

Head, Polymer Science and Engineering
July 2000 - October 2003

Guest Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
July 2005 - present

Visiting Professor, Kyushu University
October 2014 - December 2014