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Michał Szostak Editor & Author

Michal Szostak is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University, Newark, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas (USA) with Prof. Jeffrey Aubé in 2009. After postdoctoral stints at Princeton University (USA) with Prof. David MacMillan and at the University of Manchester (UK) with Prof. David Procter, in 2014, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University. His research group is focused on the development of new synthetic methodology based on transition-metal-catalysis, amide bond activation, conformational preferences of amides, transition-metal-mediated free-radical chemistry, C-H activation, and application to the synthesis of biologically-active molecules.