Julian G. West

Julian is a Canadian-American chemist who is deeply interested in finding creative solutions to problems in catalysis and compelling stories to tell the world. After receiving his B.Sc. (Hons.) in chemistry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in 2013 advised by Prof. Glenn M. Sammis, he moved to Princeton University where he completed his doctoral studies in organic chemistry and catalysis in 2017 with Prof. Erik J. Sorensen. Julian is currently an NIH and Resnick Sustainability Institute Prize Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology working in the labs of Profs. Harry B. Gray and Brian M. Stoltz to invent green methods for making fuels, pharmaceuticals and high-performance materials. Outside of lab, Julian likes to play music (piano, guitar and sing), run and write magazine articles.