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Academic Information: Frontier Science Report (76)
Speaker: Professor Michal Szostak
Time: May 22, 2019 16:20
Report Address: Laboratory Building 1A302
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Title: Activation of Inert Bonds Using Transition Metals and Beyond
Speaker: Professor Michal Szostak
Reporting location: Laboratory Building 1A302
Reporting time: May 22, 2019, 16:20 pm
Science and Technology Department/ Frontier Institute/ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
May 20, 2019
Speaker profile
Michal Szostak is a tenured professor of chemistry at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2009 and his postdoctoral research at Princeton University and Manchester University in 2010 and 2011-2014. Research interests include amide bond chemistry, carbon-hydrogen bond activation, and metal-organic catalytic reactions. As a first author or correspondent, published research papers in international authoritative journals such as Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Nat. Comm., Nat. Protoc., JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. The rest, including more than 90 papers in a district, 23 high-cited papers, cited more than 4,900 times, H index 43. He was awarded the 2018 American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Award, the 2017 National Science Foundation Distinguished Young Professor Award, the 2015 Ralph E. Bowie Distinguished Young Professor Award, and the 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Excellent Collaborative Researcher Award.