Education:

 B.A. Chemistry, Carleton College, 1988
Ph.D. Chemistry, Stanford University, 1993
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1995
Academic positions:

 James McGill Professor of Chemistry, 2011-present
Full Professor, McGill University, 2010-present
Dawson Scholar, McGill University, 2005-2011
Associate Professor, McGill University, 2001-2009
Assistant Professor, McGill University, 1995-2001

Email:

 		bruce.arndtsen@mcgill.ca
Info: Bruce Arndtsen was born in Minnesota in 1966. He did his undergraduate studies at Carleton College (B.A. in Chemistry, 1988). He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1993) at Stanford University, under the direction of Prof. Lisa McElwee-White probing the synthesis and reactivity of low valent metal-nitrene complexes. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Robert Bergman at the University of California, Berkeley from 1993-1995, in the area of alkane C-H bond activation. In 1995, he accepted his faculty position at McGill University, was promoted to associate professor in 2001 followed by full professor in 2010. He is currently a James McGill Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of the Quebec Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysis.

Research in his laboratory is at the intersection of metal catalysis, organic synthesis, Green chemistry and sustainability. This includes thrusts using photochemistry and electrochemistry in metal catalysis, C-H bond functionalization, chiral anions in asymmetric catalysis, multicomponent synthesis and carbonylation chemistry. He has held William Dawson and James McGill Chairs for the past 19 years (Canadian Research Chair equivalents at McGill), received two DuPont Research Awards, and an NSERC Accelerator. His is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2021 received the Alfred Bader Award in Organic Chemistry by the Canadian Society for Chemistry.