Dr Wade F. Petersen

Organic synthesis lab based at Curtin University, Perth, interested in photocatalysis and drug discovery research.

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

📣❗️Funded PhD Opportunity in Organic Chemistry within the Petersen Group❗️📣

Using photochemical synthesis, the project aims to design new B-lactam therapeutics to combat antimicrobial resistance (https://t.co/ezTNhOYvAX).

To apply, submit an EOI before 18 November 2025😎

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

A new adventure begins!😊

I am pleased to share that I have started a new position within the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University @CurtinEandA @CurtinUni and am thrilled to be part of the team🎉

The photochemistry continues!!😎🔦

https://t.co/H1pTLMWq1v

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

Next up: Jonathan’s work on the photocatalytic synthesis of indolyl-isoxazolines just accepted in @EurJOC (https://t.co/X8wAE41Ae9).
🎉Congrats to him and the team!🎉
@farhiii @UnsworthChem @PayneResearch
Stay tuned for more from Jono by checking out the @JamesLabChem !

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

Keep an eye out for the last couple from the group!😎🦾

Latest instalment: Phathu’s PhD work on enantioselective a-amination just out in @JOC_OL (https://t.co/oJP7X9cT2W). Congrats to Phathu and the entire team!🎉🎉 For more from this guy, keep an eye out on the @spicerlab!

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

Super excited to be part of the @epichem team!!😎🎉

From TLC scale to ‘bucket’ synthesis🪣
Oilfield services to polymer production…
Drug discovery to blue skies projects🩵

If you got a challenge for us, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!!

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

1 Thing I Wish I knew Before Starting an Academic Research Group https://t.co/THvAc7rZsh

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

After 7 amazing years in academia, friends made, collaborations created, and exhilarating scientific exploits, it is with a heavy heart, time has come to say goodbye😢.
As I look forward to new directions in Australia, I thank you all for the wonderful memories over the years!!😀

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Join Dr Wade Petersen on 6 February for the Rising Star Africa Prize Lecture and explore how we can produce criticial medicines during a time of rapidly declining energy and resources, and hear of his experiences working through blackouts in South Africa: https://t.co/PSvnWE8fep

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

@GSResearch_UCT @TarynGolding17 @taryn_golding @UCT_news @UCTpostgrads @NRF_News Congratulations @TarynGolding17 !!🎉 Wonderful achievement.

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

Big congratulations to all the @royalsociety award winners for 2023. Checkout the full list here: https://t.co/BtEi39O1TT

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

Really honoured to receive this award from @royalsociety. Big thanks to the entire team through the years that contributed to our research vision!😊☀️

[UCT @UCT_news]

Dr Wade Petersen, from the Department of Chemistry at UCT, has been announced as the winner of the Royal Society’s Rising Star Africa Prize winner for 2023. Read more: https://t.co/vOjBH3uDSH

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

@spicerlab @ChemistryatYork @ChemBiolYork Congratulations all!!🎉

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

What a great day of celebrations!!🎉 First PhD students out of the Petersen Group!🎉 Congratulations to Dr Crispen Munashe Mazodze (left) @Dr_Munashe and Dr Phathu Masithi (right). It’s been an absolutely amazing journey! All the very best for your respective adventures!🎉🎉🦾

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

@ChemistryKoenig Very nice!

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

Been such a great meeting! Lovely to meet you and share many many (fun) stories! 🙈😊 #MeetingOfMinds @royalsociety

[Goss Group @GossGroup]

Look who I caught up with ⁦@royalsociety⁩ #meetingofminds
Great to meet ⁦⁦@DrClintVeale⁩ ⁦@PetersenLab_UCT⁩ !!!

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

@UnsworthChem @angew_chem @ChemistryatYork Amazing! Congrats to the team🎉

[Dr Will Unsworth @UnsworthChem]

🚨Synthetic Chemists🚨still time to apply for this postdoc working with me and Gideon Grogan using enzymes to do selective oxygenation reactions. Biocat experience NOT essenetial - we will train you in these parts. Informal enquiries welcome. Please RT!

https://t.co/nCrmq7tvkJ

[Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab]

Congratulations to Tara on her lovely work investigating trinuclear iridium complexes as photoredox catalysts🎉👏🏽. My 1st collaborative work with the @GSResearch_UCT group. Thanks for letting me be a part of this. https://t.co/XjZhD044PH

[Kelley Moult @KelleyMoult]

Proud to be preparing to go on strike with other @UCT_news academics for the first time in UCT’s history. UCT are offering 3% pay increase for 2023 . Other institutions are able to offer 6%.
#UCTAcademicsStrike

[Chemistry at Thieme @thiemechemistry]

Be part of David Leboeuf´s talk on “Expanding the Scope of C-C and C−N Bond-Forming Transformations in Hexafluoroisopropanol” & Daniele Leonori´s insights into “Novel synthetic methods using photoexcited nitroarenes” next week.
👉https://t.co/Sz4EJKQhUO
@djpleboeuf @LeonoriLab