James Valentini
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Professor James J. Valentini is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia - he has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1991. He assumed the responsibilities of Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemistry after Michele M. Moody-Adams resigned in the summer of 2011. He is currently the interim dean but was chair of Columbia's Chemistry Department from 2005 to 2008 and was later the directer of the chemistry department’s undergraduate studies program.
Academic career
In 2009, Valentini was selected by his peers as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and earlier as a fellow of the American Physical Society for his research involving chemical reaction dynamics.
