Simoyi's Curriculum Vitae

Simoyi, Reuben H. (Curriculum Vitae)

Education:

1977-1981 Brandeis University, Ph.D.; Physical Chemistry
1980 Brandeis University, M.A.; Physical InorganicChemistry
1980 Northeastern University, Boston, Mass. Computer Systems Analysis and Development.
1979 Bentley College of Business, Fortran Programming in Business. Diploma Course.
1974-1977 University of Ife, B.Sc. Honors, Chemistry, First Class (Summa Cum Laude).

Activities:

University of Zimbabwe Basketball Coach 1983-92
Zimbabwe Golfers' Association 1989-present
Monongalia Youth Soccer Association, Coach, 1995-present
Monongalia County U-10 Basketball Coach, 1995-present

Work Experience:

2002 - present Professor of Chemistry, Portland State University
1997 - 2002 Professor of Chemistry, West Virginia University
1992 - 1996 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, West Virginia University
1992 - 1996 Professor of Chemistry, University of Zimbabwe
1990 - 1992 Associate Professor; University of Zimbabwe
1989 - 1991 Visiting Professor, Brandeis University
1988 - 1989 Senior Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe
1983 - 1987 Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe
1987 - 1987 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
1981 - 1983 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
1982 - 1983 Resident Chemist, Austin White Lime, Round Rock,Austin, Texas
1977 - 1981 Research and Teaching Assistant, BrandeisUniversity
1975 - 1977 Research Assistant, University of Ife
1974 High School Mathematics Teacher, Hartzell High School, Mutare, Zimbabwe
1973 Metallurgist, Mhangura Copper Mines, Alaska, Zimbabwe.

Professional Societies:

American Chemical Society, 1979 - present
American Physical Society, 1981 - present
Zimbabwe Scientific Association, 1987 - present
Royal Society of Chemistry. (from January, 1997)

Conferences and Seminars:

American Chemical Society; March, 1980, Houston, Texas. Presented a paper entitled "Relaxation Spectra of Orthoperiodates in Dimerizations Studied by Temperature-Jump Spectrophotometry"

Nato Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics; March, 1983, Austin, Texas. Presented a paper entitled "Universal Sequence in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction"

Brandeis University Colloquium; February, 1985, Waltham, Massachusetts. Presented a seminar entitled "Intermittency and Period-Doubling in a Multicomponent Chemical Reaction"

Gordon Conference; July, 1985, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Presented a poster entitled "Complex Kinetics in the Bromate-Iodide Reaction: A Clock Reaction Mechanism"

University of Oregon Colloquium, August, 1986, Eugene, Oregon. Presented a seminar entitled "Two-Component Bromate Oscillators"

Gordon Conference; July, 1988, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Presented a poster on "The Development of Two-component Bromate-Sulfur Oscillators"

Fourth International Chemistry Conference in Africa; July, 1989, Zomba, Malawi. Presented a paper entitled "The Universal Sequence in a chemical System: The Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction in a CSTR"

The International Conference on Exotic Phenomena in Chemistry; August, 1989, Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary. Presented a poster on "Travelling Wave in the Chlorite-Thiourea Reaction"

American Chemical Society; April, 1990, Boston, Massachusetts. Chaired the Pedagogical Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics in Chemistry.

Fifth International Chemistry Conference in Africa; July, 1992, Gaborone, Botswana. Presented a paper entitled "Nonlinear Dynamics in Chemistry Derived From Sulfur Chemistry".

Georgetown University, Department of Chemistry, Washington, D.C., March 23, 1993. Delivered the departmental colloquium entitled "Chemical Chaos, Past, Present, and Future".

South Dakota School of Mines, Rushmore Plaza Hotel, Rapid City, South Dakota, November 6 - 10, 1993. Presented a poster on the Nonlinear Dynamics Research Group at West Virginia University. Also represented the state of West Virginia at the annual EPSCoR meeting.

Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, December 1, 1993. Delivered the Departmental Colloquium on "Travelling Waves in Oxyhalogen - Sulfur Systems".

University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar; "First International Conference in Chemistry and Its Applications", December 4 - 10, 1993. Presented an invited talk entitled "Chaos in a Dissipative Dynamical System".

Charleston, Marriott Hotel, West Virginia State EPSCoR Annual Meeting; December 13 - 14. Gave a short presentation on "Sulfur Chemistry in Nonlinear Dynamics".

32^nd Convention of the South African Chemical Institute, Eskom, Midrand, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, January 31, 1994. Presented a plenary talk entitled "Chemical Chaos in a Dissipative Dynamical System: The Belousov Zhabotinskii Oscillator"

32^nd Convention of the South African Chemical Institute, Eskom, Midrand, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, February 2, 1994. Presented a talk entitled "Complex Reaction Patterns and Oxidation Mechanisms of Some Selected Sulfur Compounds in Aqueous Solutions"

32^nd Convention of the South African Chemical Institute, Eskom, Midrand, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, February 2, 1994. Presented a poster entitled "Breakdown of Symmetry, Spatiotemporal Patterns and Traveling Waves in Oxyhalogen-Sulfur Systems".

University of Natal-Durban, Department of Chemistry, Durban, Kwazulu/Natal, Republic of South Africa, February 7, 1994. Presented an invited lecture entitled "Symmetry-breaking Bifurcations in Oxyhalogen-Sulfur Systems"

Witwatersrand University, Department of Chemistry, Johannesburg, Witwatersrand, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, February 8, 1994. Presented a lecture entitled "Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamics"

Symposium on Nonlinear Systems in Medicine and Biology, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis, May 11-12, 1994. Presented a poster entitled "Double-Diffusive Patterns in the Chemical Wave Generated by the Chlorite-Thiourea Reaction"

Gordon Research Conference on Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities, Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island, August 7-12, 1994. Presented a poster entitled "Spatiotemporal and Double-Diffusive Patterns in Oxyhalogen-Sulfur Systems.

Dynamics Days, Houston, Texas, Jan 4-7, 1995. Delivered a talk entitled "Traveling Waves and Spatiotemporal Patterns in Novel Chemical Reaction Systems"

Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Feb 3-5, 1995. Delivered a talk entitled "On the Convective Instabilities Induced by an Exothermic Autocatalytic Chemical Reaction".

Australian Mathematical Society, Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematicians, ANZIAM, Busselton, Western Australia, Australia, Feb 5-9, 1995. Delivered a talk entitled "Coupling of Reaction-Diffusion With The Benard-Marangoni Instability With Internal Heat Generation".

University of Western Australia, Chemistry Department, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, February 10, 1995. Delivered the departmental colloquium on the topic "Symmetry-Breaking Bifurcations In Oxyhalogen-Sulfur Mixtures"

Australian Conference on Physical Chemistry, Australia National University Canberra, Feb 12-16, 1995. Delivered a talk entitled "Spatiotemporal Structures And Travelling Waves From Diffusion-Convection-Reaction Systems"

University of Queensland, Departments of Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, Physics and the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, St. Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, February 21, 1995. Delivered a joint seminar/colloquium on "Universal Dynamics: Chaos in Various Non-Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems"

Queensland University of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Feb. 22, 1995. Delivered the departmental colloquium entitled "Nonlinear Dynamics in Chemistry Derived From Oxidation of Sulfur Compounds".

University of New England, Department of Chemistry, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, Feb 23, 1995. Delivered the departmental colloquium entitled "Travelling Waves in Oxyhalogen-Sulfur Mixtures".

Royal Society of Chemistry 100^th Faraday Transactions, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, April 19-21, 1995. Presented a poster entitled "Complex Reaction Patterns in Some Selected Sulfur Compounds in Aqueous Solutions and Gaseous Mixtures"

Royal Society of Chemistry 100^th Faraday Transactions, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, April 19-21, 1995. Delivered a talk entitled "Complex Reaction Paterns in Some Selected Sulfur Compounds in Aqueous Solutions and Gaseous Mixtures"

West Virginia University Nonlinear Dynamics EPSCoR group, Nonlinear Dynamics: Moving Toward Applications, April 29, 1995. Delivered a talk entitled "Formation of Spatio-temporal Patterns from Convective Systems".

West Virginia University Nonlinear Dynamics EPSCoR group, Nonlinear Dynamics: Moving Toward Applications, April 29, 1995. Presented a poster entitled "Environmental Chemistry: Complex Reaction Patterns in Some Selected Sulfur Compounds in Aqueous and Gaseous Mixtures".

American Chemical Society (National Meeting), Anaheim, California, April 2-6, 1995. Presented a poster entitled "Traveling Waves and Spatiotemporal Patterns in Novel Chemical Reaction Systems".

American Chemical Society (S.E./S.W. Regional Meeting), Nonlinear Dynamics Symposium Memphis, Tennessee, November 29 - December 3, 1995. Presented a talk entitled "Convective Instabilities Induced by an Exothermic Autocatalytic Chemical Reaction".

American Chemical Society (S.E./S.W. Regional Meeting), Memphis, Tennessee, November 29 - December 3, 1995. Presented a talk entitled "Fingering Patterns in the Chlorite-Thiourea Reaction".

American Chemical Society (S.E./S.W. Regional Meeting), Memphis, Tennessee, November 29 - December 3, 1995. Presented a poster entitled "The Wealth of Nonlinear Dynamics from Sulfur Chemistry".

33^rd Convention of the South African Chemical Institute, University of Cape Town, Kaap Stad, South Africa, January 29 - February 2, 1996. Presented a talk entitled "Convective Instabilities Induced by an Exothermic Autocatalytic Chemical Reaction"

American Chemical Society (National Meeting), New Orleans, Louisiana, March 24 - 29, 1996. Presented a poster entitled "Travelling Waves and Spatiotemporal Patterns in Novel Chemical Reaction Systems"

American Chemical Society (National Meeting) New Orleans, Louisiana, March 24 - 29, 1996. Delivered a poster entitled "Complex Dynamics From Sulfur Chemistry"

KenFest’96, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, June 13, 1996. Organized a Symposium entitled "The Kustin Legacy"

Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Transactions, 6^th International Meeting on Reaction Mechanisms, Department of Chemistry, University of Kent, Canterbury, July 9 -12 1996. Delivered a talk entitled: "Mechanistic Studies of the Complex Interactions of Oxyhalogen Compounds with Sulfur Compounds"

Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Transactions, 6^th International Meeting on Reaction Mechanisms, Department of Chemistry, University of Kent, Canterbury, July 9 -12 1996. Presented a poster entitled "The Wealth and Range of Nonlinear Dynamics from Sulfur Chemistry"

Wake Forest University, Department of Chemistry, Winston Salem, North Carolina, September 17, 1996. Delivered the departmental colloquium entitled "Self-Organization with Traveling Waves".

Selected Publications