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Biography

Rob grew up in Camlachie, a small town in South Western Ontario. He completed his B. Sc. degree at the University of Waterloo in 1996, developing an enthusiasm for organic chemistry through co-op placements in the research divisions of Bayer A.G. (Leverkusen) and Apotex (Toronto) as well as an undergraduate research project with Professor Victor Snieckus. He then moved on to the University of British Columbia where he was involved in natural product isolation, structure determination and total synthesis under the supervision of Professors Raymond Andersen and Edward Piers.

In 2002, he was awarded a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship for research into the stereochemical assignment and total synthesis of complex macrolides with Professor Ian Paterson at the University of Cambridge. In 2004, Rob accepted a position as Senior Research Chemist in the Process Research group at Merck Frosst Canada before joining the faculty at Simon Fraser University in 2005 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and Full Professor in 2015. His current interests range from the total synthesis of biologically active natural products to the development of new synthetic methods with applications in late-stage C-H functionalization, 18F-labelling and nucleoside analogue synthesis.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Natural Product Reports (NPR)