Dr Wade F. Petersen

📣❗️Funded PhD Opportunity in Organic Chemistry within the Petersen Group❗️📣 Using photochemical synthesis, the project aims to design new B-lactam therapeutics to combat antimicrobial resistance (research.curtin.edu.au/higher-degree-…). To apply, submit an EOI before 18 November 2025😎

A new adventure begins!😊 I am pleased to share that I have started a new position within the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University @CurtinEandA @CurtinUni and am thrilled to be part of the team🎉 The photochemistry continues!!😎🔦 linkedin.com/feed/update/ac…

Next up: Jonathan’s work on the photocatalytic synthesis of indolyl-isoxazolines just accepted in @EurJOC (…mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…). 🎉Congrats to him and the team!🎉 @farhiii @UnsworthChem @PayneResearch Stay tuned for more from Jono by checking out the @JamesLabChem !

Keep an eye out for the last couple from the group!😎🦾 Latest instalment: Phathu’s PhD work on enantioselective a-amination just out in @JOC_OL (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…). Congrats to Phathu and the entire team!🎉🎉 For more from this guy, keep an eye out on the @spicerlab!

Super excited to be part of the @epichem team!!😎🎉 From TLC scale to ‘bucket’ synthesis🪣 Oilfield services to polymer production… Drug discovery to blue skies projects🩵 If you got a challenge for us, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!!

1 Thing I Wish I knew Before Starting an Academic Research Group linkedin.com/pulse/1-thing-…

After 7 amazing years in academia, friends made, collaborations created, and exhilarating scientific exploits, it is with a heavy heart, time has come to say goodbye😢. As I look forward to new directions in Australia, I thank you all for the wonderful memories over the years!!😀

Join Dr Wade Petersen on 6 February for the Rising Star Africa Prize Lecture and explore how we can produce criticial medicines during a time of rapidly declining energy and resources, and hear of his experiences working through blackouts in South Africa: royalsociety.org/science-events…

@GSResearch_UCT @TarynGolding17 @taryn_golding @UCT_news @UCTpostgrads @NRF_News Congratulations @TarynGolding17 !!🎉 Wonderful achievement.

Congratulations to Taryn Golding @TarynGolding17 @taryn_golding of @UCT_news and @UCTpostgrads, who has been awarded the @NRF_News Research Excellence Award for Next Generation Researchers at the #NRFawards2023 @GSResearch_UCT

Big congratulations to all the @royalsociety award winners for 2023. Checkout the full list here: royalsociety.org/news/2023/08/m…

Really honoured to receive this award from @royalsociety. Big thanks to the entire team through the years that contributed to our research vision!😊☀️

@spicerlab @ChemistryatYork @ChemBiolYork Congratulations all!!🎉

Proud moment today as my first PhD student, Nick, graduated from @ChemistryatYork. Also in the picture is our Lianne Willems and her first PhD Katie, a great day for @ChemBiolYork!

What a great day of celebrations!!🎉 First PhD students out of the Petersen Group!🎉 Congratulations to Dr Crispen Munashe Mazodze (left) @Dr_Munashe and Dr Phathu Masithi (right). It’s been an absolutely amazing journey! All the very best for your respective adventures!🎉🎉🦾

@ChemistryKoenig Very nice!

Good news! Our study on photoreactors was discussed and received quite some interest: a #topcitedarticle in its journal doi.org/10.1002/cptc.2… Effects of Light Intensity and Reaction Temperature on Photoreactions in Commercial Photoreactors

Been such a great meeting! Lovely to meet you and share many many (fun) stories! 🙈😊 #MeetingOfMinds @royalsociety

@UnsworthChem @angew_chem @ChemistryatYork Amazing! Congrats to the team🎉

Very pleased to announce the publication of the group's latest paper 'Ring Expansion Strategies for the Synthesis of Medium Sized Ring and Macrocyclic Sulfonamides' - just out in @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… @ChemistryatYork #ringexpansion

🚨Synthetic Chemists🚨still time to apply for this postdoc working with me and Gideon Grogan using enzymes to do selective oxygenation reactions. Biocat experience NOT essenetial - we will train you in these parts. Informal enquiries welcome. Please RT! jobs.ac.uk/job/CWL995/res…

Congratulations to Tara on her lovely work investigating trinuclear iridium complexes as photoredox catalysts🎉👏🏽. My 1st collaborative work with the @GSResearch_UCT group. Thanks for letting me be a part of this. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Proud to be preparing to go on strike with other @UCT_news academics for the first time in UCT’s history. UCT are offering 3% pay increase for 2023 . Other institutions are able to offer 6%. #UCTAcademicsStrike

Be part of David Leboeuf´s talk on “Expanding the Scope of C-C and C−N Bond-Forming Transformations in Hexafluoroisopropanol” & Daniele Leonori´s insights into “Novel synthetic methods using photoexcited nitroarenes” next week. 👉fal.cn/3vdVQ @djpleboeuf @LeonoriLab