Organic synthesis lab based at Curtin University, Perth, interested in photocatalysis and drug discovery research.
Perth, Western Australia
Joined February 2021
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📣❗️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/highe…).
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!!😎🔦
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Next up: Jonathan’s work on the photocatalytic synthesis of indolyl-isoxazolines just accepted in @EurJOC (chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…).
🎉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/acs…). 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!!
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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!!😀
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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-eve…
Really honoured to receive this award from @royalsociety. Big thanks to the entire team through the years that contributed to our research vision!😊☀️
Dr Wade Petersen, from the Department of Chemistry at UCT, has been announced as the winner of the Royal Society’s Rising Star Africa Prize winner for 2023. Read more: bit.ly/3sw44yR
Big congratulations to all the @royalsociety award winners for 2023. Checkout the full list here: royalsociety.org/news/2023/0…
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!🎉🎉🦾
Been such a great meeting! Lovely to meet you and share many many (fun) stories! 🙈😊 #MeetingOfMinds @royalsociety
Look who I caught up with @royalsociety #meetingofminds
Great to meet @DrClintVeale @PetersenLab_UCT !!!
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🚨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!
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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/ar…
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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
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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
Dr Wade F. Petersen retweeted
Two weeks left to apply for our 3 yr postdoc position @ChemistryatYork funded by @wellcometrust, ideal for people with interests at the interface of synthesis and chemical biology. Flexible start date between March-July, get in touch if you're interested jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/pdra…
Our PhD student, Meghan Oddy, in the middle of her fantastic talk on using Energy Transfer Catalysis for small molecule synthesis at the #saci44. 😎👏🏽
Really cool that our article (@angew_chem 2022, 61, e202213086) has been highlighted as the Synfact of the Month for December 2022! 😎 @UnsworthChem @LynamChemistry
Thanks @thiemechemistry for the recognition!😊 (thieme-connect.com/products/…).
