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Tom Maimone was born and raised in Warsaw, NY. He began his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained his B.S. degree with high honors in chemistry in 2004. At Berkeley, he conducted undergraduate research in the laboratory of Prof. Dirk Trauner. In the fall of 2005, he commenced doctoral studies at the Scripps Research Institute under the guidance of Prof. Phil Baran, where he worked on the total syntheses of alkaloids such as hapalindole U and ambiguine H, and contributed to a team that successfully synthesized the complex diterpene vinigrol. Following his Ph.D., he moved to MIT for postdoctoral studies with Prof. Steve Buchwald, focusing on palladium-catalyzed carbon-oxygen and carbon-fluorine bond formation. In July 2012, he returned to UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry. His research group investigates the chemistry and biology of natural products with a focus on total synthesis, new methods in organic synthesis, and catalyst design. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and became a full Professor in 2022.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Investigates the chemistry and biology of natural products with a focus on total synthesis, new methods in organic synthesis, and catalyst design.
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