The AMU Faculty of Chemistry cordially invites you to the last lecture in the AMU Invited Lecture Series in MODERN CATALYSIS 5, which will be held on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. on the TEAMS platform.
The guest speaker will be Prof. Scott Stewart from The University of Western Australia (https://stewartresearchgroup.com).
The title of the lecture is “Nickel Phosphite Precatalysts for C-S, C-C and C-N Bond Formation.”
Scott Stewart is an associate professor at the University of Western Australia. He obtained his PhD from the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University (ANU) under the supervision of Prof. Martin Banwell. He was a Humboldt Foundation scholar at the University of Göttingen in Prof. Lutz Tietze's group. He also worked in medicinal chemistry as a postdoctoral researcher at Monash University (with Prof. Peter Scammells) and at the University of Newcastle (with Prof. Adam McCluskey). He has been professionally associated with the University of Western Australia since 2005.
The professor's current research interests include: nickel, palladium, and rhodium catalysts, efficient synthesis of cyclic natural compounds, domino reactions, and the medicinal chemistry of thalidomide and compounds with activity on the central nervous system.
Among the distinctions, Prof. Scott Stewart has received are the Japan Gateway Lectureship (Kyoto University Top Global Program), a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) scholarship, The RACI Athel Beckwith Award for Young Organic Chemists, an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship, the Talent Recruitment of Guangdong (China) award, Kyoto University Foundation Invitation Scholarship, and the Tasmanian Alkaloids Lectureship.
He is the author of three patents and over 80 publications in scientific journals, including Angew. Chem., JACS, Org. Lett, Adv. Synth. Catal. His Hirsch index (h-index) is 30.
The lecture is organised by the AMU Laboratory of Applied and Sustainable Catalysis of the AMU Centre for Advanced Technologies with the support of the Excellence Initiative – Research University. The lecture is held under the patronage of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences' Committee on Chemical Sciences.
