Q-Chem Webinar 78

Alistair is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas. He received his MChem (2017) and DPhil (2021) from the University of Oxford as an Oxford-Radcliffe scholar, where he worked with Profs. Fernanda Duarte and Ed Anderson to understand the relationships between electron delocalization, bonding in small rings, and strain release reactivity. He received the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship for this work in 2021, then in 2022 took up a postdoctoral research position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab / UC Berkeley with Prof. Martin Head-Gordon. There, he explored relationships between energy decomposition analysis and physical organic chemistry, developing new approaches to understand the chemical bond, while also working with Prof. John Hartwig to study metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization reactions. Alistair enjoys collaborating across fields, where he has deployed computational and physical organic chemistry techniques to tackle diverse problems in organic chemistry and chemical biology. His research group focuses on uncovering relationships between interatomic interactions and chemical reactivity, with applications in catalyst design, polymer upcycling, and synthetic reaction development.