Professor Shawn Collins
Shawn K. Collins was born in 1974 and raised in Val d'Or, Québec. He obtained a B.Sc. (Honours) degree from Concordia University in 1996 while working with Professor Ossie S. Tee. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 2001 on the synthesis, preparation and application of acetylenic cyclophanes with Professor Alex G. Fallis at the University of Ottawa. After an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Larry E. Overman (University of California, Irvine) pursuing the total synthesis of polycyclic guanidinium alkaloids, he joined the faculty at Université de Montréal in September 2003 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2009 and to Full Professor in 2015. Professor Collins's research group is interested in the development of novel synthetic methods, particularly involving catalysis, photochemistry and continuous flow methods.
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2024 R. U. Lemieux Award (CSC)
2024 Prix d'excellence en enseignement de la Faculté des arts et des sciences (Faculty of Arts and Science Teaching Excellence Award)
2020 NSERC Accelerator Supplement Awardee
2019- Associate Editor of Journal of Flow Chemistry
2014-2020 Co-Director of NSERC CREATE program in Continuous Flow Science
2008 CNC-IUPAC Travel Award
2008 Ichikizaki Fund for Young Chemists
2007 Ichikizaki Fund for Young Chemists
2006 Synthesis/Synlett Journal Award
2006 Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award
2006 Ichikizaki Fund for Young Chemists
2005 Ichikizaki Fund for Young Chemists
2004 Ichikizaki Fund for Young Chemists
2002-2003 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
2000-2001 NSERC Doctoral Scholarship (PGS B)
1999-2000 Boehringer Ingelheim Graduate Research Scholarship
1999 University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship
1997-1999 NSERC Masters' Scholarship (PGS A)
1997 Society for Chemical Industry Merit Award (Canadian Section)
1993-1996 Canada Scholars in Science and Engineering