I  obtained my B.Sc.(Honours) degree in chemistry from the University of Bristol (U.K.) in 1995 and was awarded his D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford (U.K.) in 1998, under the supervision of Professor Mark G. Moloney. I subsequently completed postdoctoral studies with Professors Yoshinori Yamamoto at Tohoku University (Japan), Craig A. Hutton at The University of Sydney (Australia), and Chi-Ming Che at The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong). In 2006, I began my independent career as an Assistant Professor before rising to the rank of Associate Professor at the Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). In 2014, I moved to the School of Chemistry at Monash University (Australia) to take up my current position as Professor of Chemistry.

• Homogeneous transition metal catalysis, one of the most powerful and stereoselective synthetic tools in the chemist’s armory for the assembly of complex molecules from readily accessible precursors in a single step.

• Photoredox catalysis driven by either a metal or organic dye photocatalyst in the presence of a light source, which is currently a hot topic in research. We aim to realise new reactivities, develop new catalysts along the way and provide mechanistic insights into these novel synthetic technologies.

• Organocatalysis, one of the most powerful catalytic methods to emerge over the last two decades to rapidly achieve molecular complexity in an enantioselective manner from readily accessible precursors. We aim to develop the organocatalytic reaction chemistry of pi-rich alcohols in view of the low cost and ease of substrate preparation that provides the opportunity to introduce a wide variety of substituents. Added to this is the potential formation of water as the only byproduct that makes it a highly attractive environmentally sustainable and atom-economical approach.

• CHM1022 – Chemistry 2 

• CHM2911 – Inorganic and Organic Chemistry

• CHM3922 – Advanced Organic Chemistry