Professor Jean-Philip Lumb
Email | jean-philip.lumb @mcgill.ca
Twitter | @lumblab
Phone | 514-398-4889
Associate Professor of Chemistry | McGill University
Ph.D. | University of California, Berkeley
Supervisor: Professor Dirk Trauner
Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University
Professor Barry M. Trost
Bio | J.P. obtained his B.A. from Cornell University, where he was introduced to research by working with Bruce Ganem and Geoff Coates. In 2003, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley to pursue a Ph.D. with Dirk Trauner. As a graduate student, he worked on the biomimetic total synthesis of natural products that capitalized on complex reaction cascades triggered by oxidation. In 2008, he moved to Stanford University to pursue postdoctoral studies with Professor Barry Trost. There he developed methodologies based on palladium and copper catalysis, and also worked on the synthesis of the tricholomenyns and the complex macrolide amphidinolide N.
J.P.’s training encompasses the themes of bio-inspired synthesis and catalysis, which form the cornerstones of his independent research career. In 2011, he moved to the Department of Chemistry at McGill University, where he was awarded tenure in 2017 and a Fessenden Professorship in 2018.
Honors and Awards | 2019 Keith Fagnou Award (CSC) | 2018 Fessenden Professorship (McGill University) | 2016 G2C2 Young Researcher Award (York University, UK) | 2014 Thieme Chemistry Journal Young Investigator Award | 2008 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (NIH) | 2006 ACS Organic Division Predoctoral Fellowship | 2002 Merck Index Award (Cornell University)