Larry R. Faulkner

Dr. Larry R. Faulkner is the President Emeritus, after having served as the 27th President of The University of Texas at Austin (1998-2006), and then President of Houston Endowment, a private foundation (2006-2012). He previously served as provost, dean of liberal arts and sciences, and professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois. Dr. Faulkner is the Director of Exxon Mobil Corporation (since 2008). He is responsible for the development of the field of electrogenerated chemiluminescence, and helped to design a cybernetic electrochemical instrument, which marked a major step toward the use of artificial intelligence in cybernetic chemical instrumentation. Dr. Faulkner is the recipient of the American Chemical Society Award in analytical chemistry and the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award of the Electrochemical Society. He is the co-author (with Allen J. Bard) of the widely used text, Electrochemical Methods.