Dr. Michael Hampton

Dr. Hampton has been a professor in the Department of Chemistry since 1981. From 1984 to 1988, Dr. Hampton also worked in the Materials Testing Branch of Kennedy Space Center as a Materials Engineer for NASA. He is also currently Deputy Editor-in-Chief, “International Journal for Alternative Fuel and Ecology”, ISSN 1608-8298, and has a courtesy appointment as Principal Research Scientist at the Florida Solar Energy Center. His current research is in the area of hydrogen storage, sensing, purification and separation, and production. He also spends a great deal of time working with scientists in the former Soviet Union on obtaining and maintaining funding for peaceable research. In October 2007, Dr. Hampton turned down a Jefferson Science Fellowship with the U. S. Department of State in order to become the Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Studies. Since that time, he has had the pleasure of launching two new core courses in the undergraduate curriculum and redesigning the graduate curriculum in Interdisciplinary Studies.