Dr. Patrick Woodward graduated from Idaho State University with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and engineering in 1991. In 1996, he graduated from Oregon State University with an M.S. in Materials Science and a Ph.D. in Chemistry. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Department of Physics for two years.

Woodward joined the Chemistry Department faculty at The Ohio State University in 1998, and he currently holds the rank of Professor. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Bordeaux and Sydney in France and Australia, respectively.

Patrick is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Solid State Chemistry and the Director of the Ohio REEL programme, an NSF-funded center that works to introduce authentic research experiments into the laboratories of first- and second-year chemistry classes in 15 Ohio colleges and universities.

His research focuses on the relationships between solid-state inorganic functional materials’ bonding, structure, and properties.