THE REID LAB
Jolene P. Reid
Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, September 2020 - present
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah, 2018 – 2020
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Utah, 2017
Education
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2013-2017
MSci in Chemistry, Queen’s University Belfast, 2009-2013
Biography
Jolene received her MSci in Chemistry from Queens University Belfast in 2013. As an undergraduate, she worked in the area of organic reaction development. In 2013, she moved to the University of Cambridge to carry out PhD research with Professor Jonathan Goodman. Her thesis work combined computation and experiment to understand chiral phosphoric acid catalysis.
After graduating in 2017, she moved to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as a Postdoctoral Scholar with Professor Matthew Sigman. Here, her research focused on predictive modeling in organic synthesis. In 2018, she was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue this work. In September 2020, she joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor focusing on machine learning applications to organic synthesis.
Selected Awards and Honors
Amgen Young Investigator Award, 2024
Scialog Fellow in Automating Chemical Laboratories, 2023
Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, 2021
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellowship, 2018
ABTA Doctoral Award, 2017
RSC Travel Award, 2016
Cecil Wilson Graduate Prize, Queens University Belfast, 2013 Cecil Wilson Level 4 Prize, Queens University Belfast, 2013 Cecil Wilson Project Prize, Queens University Belfast, 2013 Martin Nelson Level 3 Prize, Queens University Belfast, 2012 Foundation Scholarship, Queens University Belfast, 2012 Martin Nelson Level 2 Prize, Queens University Belfast, 2011