Christopher S. P. McErlean

Chris McErlean was born in Northern Ireland in 1975 but grew up in Australia. In 1997 he graduated with a first class Honours degree from the University of Queensland. He was awarded his PhD from the same institution in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. W. Kitching. After postdoctoral studies in the laboratories of Prof. J. S. Clark at the University of Nottingham, he joined the group of Prof. C. J. Moody at the University of Exeter and the University of Nottingham. In late 2007 he returned to Australia to take up a Lectureship in Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012.

In 2011 he was the recipient of the Selby Research Award. In 2014 he held the Tasmanian Alkaloids Visiting Lectureship at the University of Tasmania. And most recently, he was awarded the RACI 2014 Athel Beckwith Lectureship.

His research interests include reaction development for total synthesis and sustainable catalysis.