Samuel Griffin hired by Mount Allison University

 Dr. Samuel E. Griffin grew up in West Kelowna, British Columbia (BC) and completed a B.Sc. degree with Honours in Chemistry from The University of British Columbia – Okanagan in Kelowna, BC, conducting research in the labs of Profs. Wesley Zandberg (analytical glycoscience) and Kevin Smith (organometallic chemistry). Excited by the organometallic chemistry of early-transition metals, he then pursued an NSERC-funded Ph.D. in Chemistry at The University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver, BC under the supervision of Prof. Laurel Schafer, investigating zirconium- and vanadium-catalyzed reactions. He successfully defended his thesis titled “1,3-N,O-Chelated Early-Transition-Metal Complexes for the Activation and Formation of C−E (E = H, C, N, O) Bonds”. Shifting gears to late-transition metals and materials chemistry, he then moved to sunny San Diego, California to work in the lab of Prof. Seth Cohen at the University of California, San Diego as an NSERC-funded postdoctoral scholar. During this time, his work focused on the development of low-valent metal-organic frameworks with phosphine linkers for catalytic applications. In Summer 2024, Dr. Griffin will be saying goodbye to the West coast and hello to the East coast as he starts as an Assistant Professor in the area of synthetic inorganic chemistry with applications in organometallic and materials chemistry at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-griffin-phd 

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