Congratulation to Aidan England on successfully defending his Ph.D. !
He will join Prof. Rachel Baker’s group at Queen’s University as a post-doctoral fellow.
The Schlaf Group welcomes Cianna Kershaw-Halligan as an NSERC-USRA student for the Summer 2025 semester. Cianna will be working on the synthesis of biomimetic macrocyclic ruthenium complexes designed to be super-stable homogeneous hydrogenation catalysts.
The Schlaf Group welcomes Emily McGarr as a CHEM 4900/4910 for the academic year 2023/24 ! She will be working on a catalysis project alongside Aidan exploring the influence of Lewis acid strength on the hydrodexygenation of pereacetylated sugar substrates to renewable and sustainable polymer precursors for the production of polyesters, polyurethanes, and polyamides.
Congratulations to Kyle Salmon for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis !
The Schlaf Group welcomes Victoria Dubciak as a URA student for the S2023 semester. Taking over from James (see below) she will continue on the porphyrin complex project.
Congratulations to Elise Chung for successfully defending her M.Sc. Thesis !
The Schlaf Group welcomes James Galvao as a 4th year research project student for the W2023 semester. He will be working on the synthesis of novel Fe and Ru porphyrin complexes !
September 2022: Marcel was awarded a Royal Society International Exchange grant and – just like Aidan before him (see below) – will be heading to Dr. Roberto Rinaldi’s lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College in London, England !
May 2022: The Schlaf Group welcomes Natalie Wright as an NSERC USRA Summer Co-Op student !
Congratulation to Aidan England for being awarded a MITACS Globalink Research Award Abroad ! He will be spending the Summer 2022 as a visiting researcher in Dr. Roberto Rinaldi’s lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College in London, England !
Congratulations to Aidan England for winning 2nd place in the 2021 (GWC)2 poster competition !
Congrats to Kyle Salmon for passing his M.Sc. research proposal seminar !
Congrats to Aidan England for winning 3rd place in the 2020 UofG 3 Minute Thesis Competition – check out his presentation here !
Congrats to Elise Chung for passing her M.Sc. research proposal seminar !
… and remember catalysis is cool:
Cool cats on the graduation day of Domenico Di Mondo
(M.Sc. 2011; now Chief Commercial Officer at GreenMantra)