Daniel Mindiola

Much of Mindiola's work with transition metal complexes has been applied to the intermolecular activation of inert C-H bonds to convert hydrocarbons into industrial products in a safe and cost-effective manner. Notably, in 2016, his team was able to catalytically borylate methane with an iridium catalyst.

He served as an Associate Editor for Dalton Transactions (2011-2014) and is currently an Associate Editor for Organometallics (2014–present). He has been a member of the editorial board for Inorganic Syntheses since 2014.

He then worked as a NIH and FORD Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the late Gregory L. Hillhouse at the University of Chicago on metal mediated N2O reductions and group 10 complexes with multiple metal-ligand bonds. He joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University in 2002, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2007 and Professor in 2011. In 2013, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania as the Presidential Chair Professor of Chemistry before being named the Brush Family Professor of Chemistry in 2018.

Dr. Daniel Mindiola (born in 1974), a Venezuelan chemist, is the Brush Family Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in inorganic and organometallic synthesis, catalysis, and mechanistic chemistry. He has over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Daniel José Mindiola was born in 1974 in San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela. He learned English by attending a bilingual school until third grade. In 1989, he immigrated to the United States, where he completed his high school studies graduating 1992. He attended Michigan State University and graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in chemistry with honors in 1996. As an undergraduate, he conducted research with Kim Renee Dunbar, studying the binding modes of purine bases to anti-tumor drugs containing Re, Rh, and Pt. In 2000, he completed his PhD with Christopher C. Cummins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying atom and group transfer reactions and low coordinate group 5 and 6 transition metal complexes.