Professor Tom Snaddon Recently Named a Visiting Professor at the Université Claude Bernard

Tom Snaddon, James F. Jackson Associate Professor of Chemistry, was recently named a Visiting Professor at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France. This was awarded in recognition of his laboratory’s contributions to the field of enantioselective catalysis.

This prestigious appointment was held within the renowned Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires (ICBMS) and hosted by Prof. Abder Amgoune.

As a Visiting Professor, Prof. Snaddon collaborated widely with the research groups of Professor Abder Amgoune (pictured with Prof. Snaddon) and CNRS Research Director Dr. Anis Tlilli. He had further strong scientific interactions with faculty, researchers, and students, and presented his laboratory’s most recent research in the area of enantioselective cooperative catalysis involving both one and two electron species.

Thomas N. Snaddon received his B.Sc. (Hons.) (2003) and M.Phil. (2004) degrees from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. In early 2008, he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England, for research in the arena of natural product synthesis conducted under the mentorship of Professor Philip J. Kocienski, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Postdoctoral appointments with Professor Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Germany (2008-2010) and Professor Steven V. Ley, FRS, at the University of Cambridge, England (2010-2013) further confirmed his broad interests in synthetic chemistry. He joined the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University in August 2013.

Research in the Snaddon laboratory is concerned with the design and development of new concepts in organic synthesis and catalysis.