Born:
June 23rd, 1976, Madison, WI
Education:
2004: Ph.D. Chemistry, California Institute of Technology; Professor David W. C. MacMillan, advisor.
2000: M.S. Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley; Professor David W. C. MacMillan, advisor.
1998: B.S. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin at Platteville; Professor Dwight Klaassen, advisor.
Professional experience:
2011-present: Associate Professor, Columbia University
2006-2011: Assistant Professor, Columbia University
2004-2006: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky, advisor.
1998-2003: Graduate Research Assistant, UC-Berkeley and Caltech; Professor David W. C. MacMillan, advisor.
1997-1998: Undergraduate Research, UW-Platteville;
Professors Charles Sundin and James Hamilton, advisors.
Summer 1997: NSF--Research Experience for Undergraduates, University of Kansas; Professor Joseph Heppert, advisor.
Invited lectures:
61. Lilly Grantee Symposium, Indianapolis, IN (2014)
60. College of St. Benedict | St. John's University, St. Joseph, MN (Fall 2012)
59. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (May 2012)
58. AstraZeneca, Boston, MA (April 2012)
57. NYU, New York, NY (April, 2012)
56. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (March 2012)
55. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (March 2012)
54. Harvard University, Novartis Lecturer, Cambridge, MA (Spring 2012)
53. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (January 2012)
52. Jubilant Pharmaceuticals, Miami, FL (January, 2012)
51. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (January 2012)
50. Hirata Memorial Lectures; G-COE Final International Symposium, Nagoya, Japan (November 2011)
49. Columbia University, New York, NY (November 2011)
48. Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (October 2011)
47. MIT, Cambridge, MA (October 2011)
46. Abbott Scholars Symposium, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL (August 2011)
45. Merck, Rahway, NJ (August 2011)
44. Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany (May 2011)
43. RWTH-Aachen University, Aachen, Germany (May 2011)
42. Universität Münster, Münster, Germany (May 2011)
41. Sanofi-Aventis, Frankfurt, Germany (May 2011)
40. UC-Irvine, Irvine, CA (May 2011)
39. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (May 2011)
38. University of Buffalo-SUNY, Buffalo, NY (April 2011) **student invited lecture**
37. Symposium in honor of David MacMillan's ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Anaheim, CA (March 2011)
36. Caltech, Pasadena, CA (March 2011)
35. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (March 2011)
34. Boston University, Boston, MA (November 2010)
33. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (November 2010)
32. UC-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (October 2010)
31. Amgen Young Investigator Symposium, Thousand Oaks, CA (October 2010)
30. Queens College-CUNY, Queens, New York, NY (September 2010)
29. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (September 2010)
28. Cafe Science, New York, NY (September 2010)
27. Hoffmann-La Roche, Nutley, NJ (September 2010)
26. Young Investigators Symposium, ACS 2010 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (August 2010)
25. Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT (August 2010)
24. Gordon Research Conferences—Organic Reactions and Processes, Smithfield, RI (July 2010)
23. Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN (June 2010)
22. Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (May 2010)
21. Merck, West Point, PA (April 2010)
20. U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO (April 2010)
19. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (March 2010)
18. Yale University, New Haven, CT (February 2010)
17. Bristol-Myers Squibb (Discovery), Lawrenceville, NJ (February 2010)
16. Bristol-Myers Squibb (Process), New Brunswick, NJ (February 2010)
15. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (January 2010)
14. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (January 2010)
13. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (January 2010)
12. 1st Symposium on Organic Synthesis based on Reaction Integration, Kyoto, Japan (January 2010)
11. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (January 2010)
10. New Jersey Biotechnology Chemistry Consortium Symposium, West Windsor, NJ (December 2009)
9. Hunter College, New York, NY (November 2009)
8. Emory University, Atlanta, GA (November 2009)
7. SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY (October 2009)
6. University of Wisconsin at Platteville, Platteville, WI, Chemistry Department Reunion, (October 2009)
5. Pfizer, St. Louis, MO (September 2009)
4. Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL (September 2008)
3. Gordon Research Conference—Stereochemistry (short talk), Newport, RI (July 2008)
2. NSF Synthesis Workshop, Holderness, NH (July 2008)
1. American Chemical Society Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM), Queensborough Community College, Queens, New York, NY (May 2008)
Columbia University 