Dr. Hosea Nelson

Biography

Hosea M. Nelson earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005 and completed his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 2013. Following postdoctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley, he joined the faculty at UCLA in 2015. In 2021, he transitioned to Caltech's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Professor Nelson's research program is focused on the development of enabling technologies for chemical synthesis. His group pursues two primary avenues of research: the structural chemistry subgroup develops new electron microscopy techniques to enable the characterization of complex molecules that are unattainable using traditional methods, and the synthetic subgroup concentrates on the development of new chemical reactions for the efficient and rapid synthesis of bioactive compounds.

Research Interests