Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist. Synthetic organic chemistry, with adventures in C-H activation, photoredox catalysis and flow chemistry.
If you an Early Career Researcher in synthetic organic chemistry and are interested in joining our laboratory, then consider applying for a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme - link below! Colleagues, please RT. https://t.co/B2tMJzGeos
Check out our latest preprint @ChemRxiv highlighting the development of transient excited-state α-keto esters auxiliaries for selective and late-stage alcohol oxidation. Link: https://t.co/WsyovltAC6
Excited to share that Nobel Prize Laureate Professor David MacMillan will deliver a public lecture at the University of Melbourne on 5th February 2026. Please see the link below to register. @ChemistryUoM https://t.co/C9xOgNBuVp
Honoured to deliver the Organic Plenary Lecture @Pacifichem this year. Thank you to the organisers! An outstanding opportunity to hear and connect with colleagues from all over the world.
https://t.co/WHaEwderaV
Thrilled to be part of the 2nd Australia–Japan Flow Chemistry, Automation & Microreactor Synthesis Joint Symposium in Melbourne on 4 Dec! 🇦🇺🇯🇵
Register: https://t.co/YLF3D9FvA5
Dive into advanced flow-chemistry methods, automation & ML, continuous manufacturing, and scale-up breakthroughs.
See you at the University of Melbourne (Parkville) — let’s create new connections and drive innovation together! #FlowChemistry #Microreactors #Automation #JapanAustraliaScience
🚀 The Victorian Annual Synthesis Symposium is back. Join Victoria’s vibrant organic chemistry community to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this Symposium.
Date: 5th December 2025
Location: Bio21 Institute, Melbourne.
🔬 Don’t miss it — register now and be part of the conversation shaping the future of organic synthesis!
https://t.co/a6zxnq5KJ1
A huge thanks to the @SciMelb at the @UniMelb for sharing a glimpse into my career journey. Everyone’s career path is different - lean into your unique experience and celebrate what it can bring to your science. 💥 https://t.co/rjJ5uAhIqt
Read this marvellous story about my #chemistry colleague, Anastasios Polyzos @PolyzosAP : ‘The real ‘magic’ of biology happens at invisible, chemical scales’ https://t.co/ww86bGtcVa
The chemistry laureate who built a whole new field of chemistry – Richard Robson.
Read more about Robson's prize-awarded research: https://t.co/No8DDwtEWA
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
A massive ‘thank you’ to these amazing individuals who, on a wintry Melbourne night, participated in showcasing our lab at @UniMelb Science week. Proud to watch our team engage with the public and communicate the impact, and relevance of organic chemistry. Thank you. @SciMelb @ChemistryUoM
🚀 Featured in JACS! @PolyzosAP powers the breakthrough in Electroinduced Reductive & Dearomative Alkene-Aldehyde Coupling. Rapid alternating polarity (rAP) electrolysis made it possible! ⚡️
https://t.co/ygGnD92gOO
This week's #Primer is on #flowchemistry, a method for conducting chemical reactions through tubing to increase efficiency and yields. The team, led by @DuncanLBrowne, features the expertise of @BaumannGroupUCD, @PolyzosAP, and @AnnaGSlater.
📖👇 https://t.co/xVYHQe8N3R