BA, MA Johns Hopkins University, 1975
PhD Texas A&M University, 1978
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University, 1978-79

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 1980-1985
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 1985-1990
Associate Chair, Department of Chemistry, 2002-2010
Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 1990-present
Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1991-present

Honors and Awards:
Humboldt Fellow, Univ. Freiburg and Univ. München, 1987-88
DAAD Fellow, Inst. for Organic Catalysis, Rostock, 1998

Water Soluble Phosphines and Their Use in Homogeneous Catalysis; Asymmetric Catalysis; Ligand Design; Immobilization Techniques for Organometallic Complexes; Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis; Solution and Solid State Dynamics of Metal Carbonyls; Reactivity of Metal Carbonyl Dimers

1. "New Water Soluble Chelating Phosphines for Aqueous Phase Catalysis," Hao Ding, Jianxing Kang, Brian E. Hanson, and Christian W. Kohlpaintner, J. Mol. Catal. 1997, 124, 21.
2. "Amphiphilic Phosphines for Aqueous Phase Catalysis," Hao Ding, Brian E. Hanson, and Christian W. Kohlpaintner, Catalysis Today, 1998, 42, 421.
3. "Characterization of the Luminescent, Homoleptic, Three Coordinate, Water Soluble Au(I) Complex of Trisulfonated Triphenylphohsphine (TPPTS) as the Cesium Salt, Cs8[Au(TPPTS)3].. 5.25H2O," J. P. Fackler, Jr., T. A. Grant, B. E. Hanson, R. J. Staples, Gold Bulletin, 1999, 32, 20-23.
4. "New Directions in Water Soluble Homogeneous Catalysis," B. E. Hanson, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1999, 185/186, 795-807.
5. "Spontaneous Formation of Vesicles from Amphiphilic Diphosphines: A Highly Selective and Recyclable Rhodium Catalyst," M. Schreuder Goedheijt, B. E. Hanson, J. N. H. Reek, P. C. J. Kamer, P. W. N. M. van Leeuwen,. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 1650-1657.