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About Catherine Cazin

 
Catherine S. J. Cazin received her MSc from the Université Montpellier II in 1999 and her PhD from the University of Exeter where she worked under the supervision of Robin B. Bedford on Pd-based catalytic systems. Catherine carried out a postdoctoral stay at the Universität des Saarlandes with Michael Veith and one at the Institut Français du Pétrole with Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou. She then obtained a position as Chargée de Recherche at the CNRS. She joined the EaStCHEM School of Chemistry of St Andrews in 2009 where she held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2011 until 2016. She then joined the Department of Chemistry of Ghent University were she is now a Full Professor.
 
 

2016 Chemistry of Transition Metals Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, “for her outstanding contributions to homogeneous catalysis mediated by palladium, ruthenium and copper complexes using synergistic ligand effects.”

2014-17    Associate Editor Royal Society Open ScienceCatherine Cazin

2011-14 Elected member of the Royal Society Dalton Council

2014    RSE Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane Medal (Royal Society of Edinburgh)

2014    Rising Star Speaker, 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry

            (ICCC-41), Singapore.

2013    McCamley Memorial Lecturer, University of York, UK.

2013    Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (Royal Society of Edinburgh)

2012    ACS 2012 Organometallics Fellow

2011    Royal Society University Research Fellowship

2011    Springer Successful Women in Chemistry