His research interests include reactive cation and superacid chemistry with inert carborane counterions, ionic liquids, bioinorganic chemistry, spin-coupling phenomena, fullerene chemistry, and new carbon-or porphyrin-based materials. He is a Sloan Fellow, a Dreyfus Teacher−Scholar Awardee, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Robert Bolskar received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Carroll College in Waukesha, WI, in 1992. He earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles under the direction of Christopher Reed in 1997, investigating the synthetic redox chemistry of fullerene anions and cations. In 1998 he moved to the University of California, Riverside, as Managing Research Associate. He is currently Senior Chemist at TDA Research in Wheat Ridge, CO. His research interests include the chemistry and physics of fullerene compounds, supramolecular chemistry, strongly oxidizing systems, and electrophilic cations.