Jolene P. Reid

Biography

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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.

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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             

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