Education |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, New York, USA |
| Postdoctoral Associate |
Advisor: Prof. William R. Dichtel (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
Research Topic: Nanostructured Materials
| Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Postdoctoral Fellow |
Advisor: Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
Research Topic: Mechanistic Studies of Organocatalytic Asymmetric Reactions (Experimental and Computational) and
Development of New Catalyst Architectures
| University of Alberta | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Ph.D. in Chemistry |
Advisor: Prof. Rik R. Tykwinski (Department of Chemistry)
Co-Advisor: Prof. Frank A. Hegmann (Department of Physics)
Thesis: Pentacene-Based Oligomers and Polymers - Synthesis and Properties [link]
| University of Victoria | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| B.Sc., Double Major: Chemistry and Mathematics |
Advisor: Prof. Peter Wan (Department of Chemistry)
Research Topic: Photoredox Chemistry of Benzophenones
| Merck Disruptive Chemistry Fellow | |
| NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship | |
| Governor General's Gold Medal | |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Award of Excellence in Organic or Bio-Organic Chemistry | |
| Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize | |
| Ralph Steinhauer Award | |
| NSERC Graduate Scholarship (PGS-D) | |
| Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Award | |
| Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship | |
| Alberta Ingenuity Studentship | |
| NSERC Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) | |
| Margaret Thompson Memorial Chemistry Book Prize | |
| University of Alberta Chemistry Entrance Scholarship | |
| NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA), University of Alberta | |
| HyperCube Scholar (from HyperChem) | |
| The President’s Scholarship, University of Victoria | |
| ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award |