SYNLETT Welcomes New Editorial Board Member Professor Matthew J. Gaunt
It’s our great pleasure to announce that Professor Matthew J. Gaunt from the University of Cambridge, UK, joined the SYNLETT editorial board as Associate Editor on September 1, 2024.
Matthew Gaunt graduated from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 1995. He moved to the University of Cambridge where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Spencer in 1999. After spending a year as postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Amos B. Smith III at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), he returned to the University of Cambridge in 2001 to do further postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Steven V. Ley, CBE. In 2003, Matthew started his independent career in Cambridge, where he grew through the ranks of Lecturer (2006), Reader (2010) to Professor (2012). Matthew is also a Co-Director at the Innovation Centre in Digital Molecular Technologies. The research in his group mainly focuses on the development of new chemical reactivity enabled by catalysts and is driven by programs centered on metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation, photoredox catalysis and selective chemical modification of biomolecules.
Detailed Profile & Publications
We welcome Professor Matthew J. Gaunt on the SYNLETT Editorial Board and look forward to a successful and inspiring collaboration!
About SYNLETT
SYNLETT is an international, single-anonymous peer-reviewed journal reporting research results and current trends in chemical synthesis in short, personalized reviews and preliminary communications. It covers all fields of organic chemistry involving synthesis, including catalysis, organometallic, medicinal, biological, and photochemistry, but also related disciplines. Besides quality and data security, speed is of high importance in publishing research results. SYNLETT offers Select Crowd Review (SCR) as an additional option to traditional peer review.
