Christine Le Hired by York University [@christine_m_le]

Christine Le will be joining the Department of Chemistry at York University in July 2020. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico. Prior to this, Christine was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. F. Dean Toste at UC Berkeley and gained expertise in the area of chiral anion catalysis. Christine obtained her PhD degree at the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. Mark Lautens, working in the area of palladium-catalyzed carbohalogenation reactions. Research in the Le Group spans the areas of organic, inorganic, and medicinal chemistry with an overarching emphasis on mechanism-driven reaction and catalyst design.