Tori Forbes

Tori Z. Forbes

Professor

Phone: (319) 384-1320
Office: W374 Chemistry Building (CB)
Email: tori-forbes@uiowa.edu

Education

University of Notre Dame, 2003-2007, Environmental Mineralogy and Actinide Chemistry
Ph. D, Advisor: Professor Peter C. Burns
Beloit College, 1997-2001, Chemistry, B.S., minor in Environmental Studies

Professor, 2022-Present, University of Iowa
Director UI MATFab Facility, 2022-Present, University of Iowa
Associate Professor, 2016-2022, University of Iowa
Assistant Professor, 2010-2016, University of Iowa
Postdoctoral Researcher 2008-2010, University of California at Davis
Advisor: Professor Alexandra Navrotsky
Adjunct Instructor 2007-2008, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
Postdoctoral Researcher 2007-2008, University of Notre Dame
Advisor: Professor Slavi C. Sevov
Research Assistant II, 2001-2003, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA

University of Iowa Collegiate Scholar, 2022-2024
James Van Allen Natural Sciences Fellow, 2022-2023
UI Department of Chemistry Research Scholar Award, 2021
UI Honors Lane Davis Team Teaching Award, 2019
UI Honors Lane Davis Team Teaching Award, 2017
University of Iowa Dean’s Scholar, 2016 - 2018
Finalist for Iowa Women of Innovation Award, 2015 and 2016Department of Energy Early Career Award, 2015
Chemical Communications Emerging Young Investigator, 2015
Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates, Distinguished Faculty Mentor, 2014
NSF CAREER Award, Division of Solid State and Materials Chemistry, 2013
Finalist for Early Career Scientist Poster Award, Actinides Meeting, 2009
Bayer Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2006-2007
NDEER Symposium Graduate Student Poster Award, 2005
Environmental Molecular Science Institute Graduate Student Fellowship, 2005-2007
Edward C. Fuller Award for Chemistry Education, May 2001
Erickson Scholarship in Chemistry, August 1999
Beloit College Presidential Scholarship, August 1997