University of Rochester
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rochester and an expert in organic synthesis, particularly pericyclic reactions, cationic cyclizations, and diastereoselective cascade processes applied to complex molecules.
She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1999 under Samuel Danishefsky and completed postdoctoral research with Barry Trost at Stanford/NIH (1999–2001). She began her independent career at Rochester in 2002, rising to Associate Professor in 2008 and Full Professor in 2013.
Her work focuses on developing new reactions that build unusual, highly functionalized ring systems from simple precursors, with applications in natural product synthesis.
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