Macro/Molecular Main Group Chemistry
Canada Research Chair in Inorganic Polymers & Materials
Macro/Molecular Main Group Chemistry
Canada Research Chair in Inorganic Polymers & Materials
> Massive congrats to our recent alumna Tamina Kirsch (MSc 2025) who has won the 2026 Governor General's Gold Medal Award in Sciences and Engineering at Dalhousie Chemistry. Tamina's research was on the study of trianionic NCN pincer complexes of antimony and bismuth, and she is now carrying out PhD research as a Kekulé Scholar at the University of Bonn. This marks the third year in the last 5 that someone from the Chitnis group has won the top thesis prize at Dalhousie!
> Congrats to our PhD alum Tyler Hannah on winning the Best Seminar Prize in the Chemistry Department at Dalhousie! Tyler was chosen by fellow students + committee members on the basis of excellent chemistry and strong communication skills!
> We welcome Kate Roberge as our summer undergrad researcher as part of the Inorganic Chemistry Exchange (ICE) program from Western University in Ontario. Kate was also the recepient of an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award!
> We welcome Elise Bennett as a new grad student to the group. Elise will work on making new organometallic complexes of p-block elements. Welcome Elise!!
> We welcome a new MSc student - Raul De La Garza Puente - who will do a joint degree with the Chitnis and Hof groups at UVic exploring the biological chemistry of PN cage-based (macro)molecules!
> A massive congrats to DR. Tyler Hannah for a successful PhD defence and becoming our group's 3rd PhD alumnus! Tyler will stick around for a short time to finish some projects before starting a Postdoctoral stint in the Crudden lab at Queen's Universty.
> We bid a fond farewell to Ollie Leal, Alex Benson, and Ethan Treneman who completed their Research Experience terms with us. Ethan will be returning over the summer as a volunteer!
> Saurabh has been awarded the RSC Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator Lectureship.
> NSERC PDF Maryam's work on applying PN cage polymers as high temperature dielectric films has just been accepted in Advanced Functional Materials! Check out the publications page.
> Huge congrats to PhD student Pinelopi Tsami who won the Best Poster Presentation Prize at the Graduate Student Research Day in our department for her exciting work on PN cage based MOFs!
> PhD student Tyler Hannah has been awarded the Award for Graduate Work in Inorganic Chemistry by the Inorganic Division of the CSC. This is a prestigious national recognition with only one awardee each year across Canada. Congrats Tyler!
JAN 2026:> Will's dynamic bismuth pincer ligand chemistry is online in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Check out the publications page.
> We start the new year by welcoming three undergraduate studens (Ollie, Alex, and Ethan) to the lab! Looking forward to all their exciting discoveries.
> Saurabh gave a talk at the Nova Scotia Institute of Science Public Lecture series. A video recording can be found here.