Larry Mink received a B.S. in Chemistry(1984) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and a Ph.D.in inorganic chemistry from the University of California, Riverside in 1990. From 1990-92 he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Dr. Mink has been at CSUSB since 1992.

Dr. Mink is an inorganic chemist. His Ph.D. research was in the area of organometallic chemistry on platinum- olefin complexes as homogeneous catalysts. His post-doctoral research was in the field of bioinorganic chemistry concerning iron porphryn model heme systems. Dr. Mink's present research involves the synthesis and study of platinum and palladium porphryn systems as potential catalysts and as solar energy traps. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy has been the central investigative technique in Mink's research.