Dan was born in 1989 and grew up in the UK. He carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Manchester (2007–2011), including an industrial secondment at Syngenta, before completing his PhD (2011–2015) with Prof. Steve Marsden and Prof. Adam Nelson at the University of Leeds. Dan subsequently secured an EPRSC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (2015–2017), which he carried out at Leeds and the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire. Further postdoctoral studies (2017–2018) followed in the group of Prof. Herbert Waldmann at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany, where he held a Marie Sklodowska–Curie Fellowship. Dan joined the faculty at the University of Canterbury in September 2018.
Some highlights from his C.V. are detailed below.
Career
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2022 – : Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (University of Canterbury)
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2018 – 2021: Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
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2017 – 2018: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany with Prof. Herbert Waldmann. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship held)
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2015 – 2017: Postdoctoral Research Associate (University of Leeds and Diamond Synchrotron, UK with Prof. Adam Nelson, Prof. Steve Marsden, and Prof. Frank von Delft. EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship held)
2011 – 2015: PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (University of Leeds, UK with Prof. Steve Marsden and Prof. Adam Nelson)
2007 – 2011: Masters in Chemistry with Industrial Experience (University of Manchester, UK; industrial placement at Syngenta, UK, 2009-2010)
Awards and Recognition
2018: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
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2017: Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship
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2015: EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
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Teaching
Dan contributes to the following courses at the University of Canterbury:
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CHEM212: Chemical reactivity
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CHEM242: Organic chemistry
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CHEM246: Introduction to medicinal chemistry
CHEM337: Organic synthesis
CHEM342: Aromatic and heterocyclic chemistry
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CHEM346: Contemporary medicinal chemistry
CHEM432: Organic chemistry
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