George Christou is a British-American chemist, currently the Drago and Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida, previously the Earl Blough Professor at the Indiana University. He is also an Honorary Professor at London Centre for Nanotechnology. His current interests are in bioinorganic chemistry, materials and nanoscale magnets, and supramolecular and cluster chemistry. He was a pioneer of the field of single-molecule magnets and has been a significant figure in inorganic chemistry, with multiple papers each cited over 100 times. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed publications, with an H index of 96, and has been selected to both the Highly Cited Researchers 2014 and 2015 lists.
He has received a variety of awards and honours over the years, including the recent American Chemical Society 2019 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, the 2017 SEC Faculty Achievement Award, the 2016 Southern Chemist Award, and the 2016 Nyholm Prize of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry. He was named one of 15 Florida Most Influential Scientists.
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