Dr Stephen G. Newman earned his doctoral degree in chemistry in 2012 at the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. Mark Lautens. After carrying out an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Prof. Klavs Jensen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty at the University of Ottawa in 2014 where he holds the Tier 2 anada Research Chair in Sustainable Catalysis. He and his research group seek to improve the efficiency of chemical synthesis by the application of new technologies and the development of novel catalytic methods