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
Ph. D, Advisor: Professor Peter C. Burns - Beloit College, 1997-2001, Chemistry, B.S., minor in Environmental Studies
Professional and Academic Positions
- Professor, 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
Honors and Awards
- 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