2009 Candidates for Office
The 2010 elections will take place at the May 29,
2009, dinner meeting. You may bring your ballots
to this meeting if you wish or mail them in as
instructed. In 2010, there are positions open for
chair-elect and secretary.
Chair-Elect for 2010-2012
Serves as Chairperson in 2011
Robert Todd
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Robert Todd received his elementary
and secondary education in Oklahoma and
Texas. In 1992, he entered the University
of Texas at Austin. During this time of
study he participated in studies at Rice
University and Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston in molecular virology. After meeting his wife, he moved
to Wisconsin, where he obtained a B.S. in Chemistry at UW-Oshkosh and
a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from UW-Milwaukee. He joined Aldrich
Chemical?s air-sensitive division in Sheboygan Falls in 1997 as a chemist and
was subsequently promoted to a New Product Development Scientist in the
summer of 2003. Currently, he is specializing in the synthesis of organoboron
and organometallic reagents through industrial-academic collaborations with
various universities around the world.
SECRETARY for 2010
F. Holger Foersterling
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Holger Foersterling is an NMR specialist in the Department of Chemistry
at UW-Milwaukee. He received his Diplom in Chemistry at the Philipps
Universitaet Marburg, Germany in 1991. Subsequently he studied
Organometallic Chemistry in the group of Dr. Craig Barnes at the University
of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, where he graduated with a PhD in chemistry
in 1996. He was then working on biomolecular NMR as a postdoctoral
fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Christian Griesinger at the Goethe Universitaet
Frankfurt, Germany before moving to Milwaukee in 1998. He is a member
of the American Chemical Society since 1992. He served four terms as local
section secretary from 2004 2007 and is currently maintaining the sections
web page.