Rylan Lundgren

Professor University of Alberta
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Dalhousie University
B.Sc. (Hons.) University of Manitoba

Rylan is from Winnipeg, MB and completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Manitoba. During his undergraduate studies he worked in the labs of Prof. Mario Bieringer and Prof. Deryn Fogg (Ottawa). Rylan did his Ph.D. with Prof. Mark Stradiotto at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS where he studied the design and application of P,N-ligands for platinum group metal-catalyzed reactions. This included the development of the DalPhos family ligands. As an NSERC Postdoctoral research fellow in lab of Prof. Gregory Fu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later the California Institute of Technology, Rylan studied transition metal, organocatalytic, and photoinduced methodologies for the synthesis and functionalization of amines. In July 2013 he began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019 and Full Professor in 2024. His work has been recognized by the Martha Piper Award (UAlberta), the Kieth Fagnou Award (Canadian Society for Chemistry), and the Rutherford Award (Royal Society of Canada).