EDUCATION
2004-2006: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Samuel J. Danishefsky, advisor)
2004: Ph.D. Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (David W. C. MacMillan, advisor)
2000: M.S. Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (David W. C. MacMillan, advisor)
1998: B.S. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin at Platteville
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-present: Professor, Columbia University
2011-2016: Associate Professor, Columbia University
2006-2011: Assistant Professor, Columbia University
2004-2006: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1998-2003: Graduate Research Assistant, UC-Berkeley and Caltech
1997-1998: Undergraduate Research, UW-Platteville
Summer 1997: NSF--Research Experience for Undergraduates, University of Kansas
AWARDS AND HONORS
2004-2006 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
2009 Abbott Young Investigator Award
2010 NSF CAREER award
2010 Thieme SynLett/Synthesis Journal Award
2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2010 Amgen Young Investigator Award
2010 ACS Young Investigators Symposium
2011 Eli Lilly Grantee Award
2014 Visiting Professorship, Phillips-University Marburg
2015 Swiss Chemical Society Lecturer
LECTURES
112. University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France (April 2018)
111. University of Munich, Munich, Germany (April 2018)
110. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (April 2018)
109. Max Planck Institute Mülheim, Mülheim, Germany (April 2018)
108. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany (April 2018)
107. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (April 2018)
106. Oxford University, Oxford, UK (April 2018)
105. Imperial College of London, London, UK (April 2018)
104. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (April 2018)
103. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (March 2018)
102. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (March 2018)
101. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (January 2018)
100. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (October 2017)
99. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (June 2017)
98. MIT, Organic Syntheses Lecture, Cambridge, MA (May 2017)
97. Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (May 2017)
96. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (May 2017)
95. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (May 2017)
94. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (February 2017)
93. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (November 2016)
92. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (April 2016)
91. CCNY, New York, NY (February 2016)
90. Pacifichem, organocatalysis session, Honolulu, HI (December 2015)
89. 26th Quebec-Ontario Minisymposium in Synthetic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Montreal, Canada (November 2015)
88. Perspectives on Synthetic Chemistry Series 1, Singapore (September 2015)
87. University of Geneva, Switzerland (April 2015)
86. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (April 2015)
85. University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (April 2015)
84. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland (April 2015)
83. University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland [joint with University of Fribourg and University of Neuchatel] (April 2015)
82. Novartis, Basel, Switzerland (April 2015)
81. SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY (October 2014)
80. Pfizer, Groton, CT (September 2014)
79. 22nd IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Ottawa, Canada (August 2014)
78. ISACS 14 – Challenges in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China (August 2014)
77. Novartis, Shanghai, China (August 2014)
76. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany (June 2014)
75. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (June 2014)
74. Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany (June 2014)
73. Phillips University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany (June 2014)
72. Philadelphia Chemists Club, Philadelphia, PA (May 2014) Student Invited Lecture
71. Bristol-Myers Squibb Green Chemistry Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ (May 2014)
70. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (April 2014)
69. AbbVie, Abbott Park, IL (April 2014)
68. BYU, Provo, UT (April 2014)
67. Lilly Grantee Symposium, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN (March 2014)
66. Amgen, San Francisco, CA (March 2014)
65. National University of Singapore, Singapore (February 2014)
64. Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (February 2014)
63. Merck, Rahway, NJ (December 2013)
62. Beijing Symposium 2013 on New Frontiers in Organic Chemistry: New Reagents, New Reactions, Beijing, China (October 2013)
61. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (March 2013) [student invited lecture]
60. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (November 2012)
59. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (May 2012)
58. AstraZeneca, Boston, MA (April, 2012)
57. New York University, New York, NY (April 2012)
56. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK (March 2012)
55. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (March 2012)
54. Harvard University, Novartis Lecturer, Cambridge, MA (February 2012)
53. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (January 2012)
52. Jubilant Life Sciences (India), 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 University, South Bend, IN (October 2011)
47. MIT, Cambridge, MA (October 2011)
46. Abbott Scholars Symposium, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL (September 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. ACS-National Meeting, Symposium in honor of David MacMillan’s 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, Queens, New York City, NY (September 2010)
29. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (September 2010)
28. Café 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, Kennilworth, PA (May 2010)
21. Merck, West Point, PA (April 2010)
20. University of 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 (Process), New Brunswick, NJ (February 2010)
16. Bristol-Myers Squibb (Discovery), Lawrenceville, 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 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)
