Professor Ison graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Kean University in 1999 where he performed undergraduate research in organic synthesis and computational chemistry under the direction of Dale Vitale. He earned his Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry from the University of Florida working with James Boncella. Professor Ison did his postdoctoral work with Mahdi Abu-Omar at Purdue University. Professor Ison joined that faculty at NC State in 2006 and received an NSF CAREER Award in 2010 for the design of green catalysts for chemical oxidations. He is a member of the Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis (CENTC). His research group specializes in homogeneous catalysis and studies problems ranging from the development of useful synthetic methodologies for organic chemistry to understanding the principles that underlie catalytic reactions.