Biography
Jeffrey
studied chemistry and philosophy at Trinity University in
San Antonio, Texas and worked in the research group of Prof.
Michael P. Doyle. He began his graduate studies in organic
chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in 1996.
In 1998, he moved with his research advisor, Prof.
Erick M. Carreira, to the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland, where he completed
his Doc. Nat. Sci. in 2001. Following a two year Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship with
Prof.
Keisuke Suzuki at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
in Tokyo, Japan, he joined the Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry at UC-Santa Barbara in 2003. In Fall 2007, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry.
Since starting his academic career, Jeffrey's work
has been recognized by numerous awards including a Camille and Henry
Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2003), an NSF CAREER Award (2004), a Beckman Young Investigator Award (2006),
an Amgen Young Investigator Award (2006), a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award (2006), the AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2006), Eli Lilly Grantee Award (2006–2008), a David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship (2006–2011), the Bristol Myers Squibb Unresticted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2007), and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2008).
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