Glaser教授1987年在加州大学伯克利分校获得博士学位，在耶鲁大学两年博士后进入密苏里大学做助教授、副教授和教授，是美国化学会，美国科学促进会和理论导向化学国际组织成员；曾任美国化学会“J. Org. Chem.”编委，美国化学会不同分会的组织委员；是密苏里大学和该系不同委员会的成员和执行委员等。目前已经发表研究论文150余篇，近几年内代表性研究论文包括：

1.        Chemistry Is in the News: The Why and Wherefore of Integrating Popular News Media into the Chemistry Classroom. Kathleen M. Carson, Deborah L. Hume, Yongqiang Sui, Susan Schelble, and Rainer E. Glaser. Chapter X in the Chemists’ Guide to Effective Teaching, Vol. 2, Thomas J. Greenbowe, Melanie M. Cooper, and Norbert J. Pienta, Editors. Prentice Hall Series in Educational Innovation, Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008.

2.        COVER OF THE JANUARY ISSUE. Polar Order By Rational Design: Crystal Engineering With Parallel Beloamphiphile Monolayers. Rainer E. Glaser. Review, Acc. Chem. Res. 2007, 40, 9.

3.        COVER OF THE MAY ISSUE. Electronic Structures and Spin Topologies of γ-Picoliniumyl Radicals. A Study of the Homolysis of N-Methyl-γ-Picolinium and of Benzo-, Dibenzo-, and Naphthoannulated Analogs. Rainer E. Glaser, Yongqiang Sui, Ujjal Sarkar, and Kent Gates. J .Phys. Chem. A 2008, 112, 4800.

4.        Cytosine Catalysis of Nitrosative Guanine Deamination and Interstrand Cross-Link Formation. Rainer Glaser, Hong Wu, and Michael Lewis. Article, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005,127, 7346.

5.        Embedding 1,6-Diphenyl-1,2-Dihydronaphthalene (DHN) in 1,4-Distyrylbenzene (DSB): Arene-Arene Interactions in a “Crossed Bis-Diarene.” Yongqiang Sui and Rainer E Glaser. Article, Cryst. Growth Des. 2006, 6, 1014.

6.        COVER OF THE JULY ISSUE. Teaching Dissent and Persuasion. Kathleen M. Carson, Brian Hodgen, and Rainer E. Glaser. Review, Educ. Res. Rev. 2006, 1, 115.

7.        Ammonia Elimination from Protonated Nucleobases and Related Synthetic Substrates. Ming Qian, Shuo Yang, Hong Wu, Papiya Majumdar, Nathan Leigh, and Rainer E. Glaser. Article, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrometry (JAMAS) 2007, 18, 2040.

8.        Adenine Synthesis in Interstellar Space: Mechanisms of Prebiotic Pyrimidine Ring-Formation in Monocyclic HCN-Pentamers. Rainer E. Glaser, Brian Hodgen, Dean Farrelly, and Elliot McKee. Article, Astrobiology 2007, 7, 455.

9.         Stabilities and Spin Density Distributions of Benzannulated Benzyl Radicals. Yongqiang Sui, Rainer E. Glaser, Ujjal Sarkar, and Kent Gates. Article, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2007, 3, 1091.

10.     Helically Annelated and Cross-Conjugated β-Oligothiophenes: An FT-Raman Spectroscopic and Quantum Chemical DFT Study. Reyes Malavé Osuna, Rocío Ponce Ortiz, Victor Hernández, Juan Teodomiro López Navarrete, Makoto Miyasaka, Suchada Rajca, Andrzej Rajca, and Rainer E. Glaser, Article, J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 1, 4854.