Kim Renee Dunbar

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Kim R. Dunbar is an American inorganic chemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. She earned a B.S. in chemistry from Westminster College in 1980 and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Purdue University in 1984 under Richard A. Walton. She did postdoctoral work with F. Albert Cotton at Texas A&M (1985–1986). She spent 1986–1999 at Michigan State University, where she became a distinguished professor in 1998. In 1999 she returned to Texas A&M, where she holds the Davidson Chair of Science and the Distinguished Professorship of Chemistry, and she is the College of Science’s first female chair. In 2015 she received the American Chemical Society’s Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, becoming the second woman to win the award. She is also the first recipient of the Texas A&M Women Former Students’ Network Eminent Scholar Award, and Westminster College awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2012. She serves as an associate editor of ACS Inorganic Chemistry. Dunbar has authored more than 280 publications and leads research in inorganic and coordination chemistry, molecular magnetism, metals in medicine, and supramolecular chemistry involving anions and anion–π interactions, as well as multifunctional materials containing organic radicals. Her work includes studies on anion–π interactions, single-molecule magnets, and materials with potential applications in catalysis, water purification, biology, and quantum computing.