Nivaldo tro biography examples

Westmont will honor chemistry professor Nivaldo Tro ’85 as Alumnus of the Year during Homecoming 2015 Oct. 2-4.

Nivaldo tro biography examples

Tro, who has taught at Westmont since 1990, was born and raised in Culver City, Calif., after his parents emigrated from Havana, Cuba, in 1959. The Westmont alumnus earned a doctorate in chemistry from Stanford for researching optical techniques to study the adsorption and desorption of molecules in an ultra-high vacuum.

He conducted postdoctoral research on ultrafast reaction dynamics in solution at the University of California, Berkeley.

Since coming to Westmont, Tro has authored more than 20 journal articles and been awarded grants from the American Chemical Society, the Petroleum Research Fund, Research Corporation and the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of various processes occurring in thin adlayer films adsorbed on dielectric surfaces.

He has been honored as Westmont’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year three