Laurel Schafer
Laurel Schafer is a Canadian Organic chemist. She is a full professor at the University of British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development. Schafer's research is at the intersection of organometallic and organic chemistry. Early life and education Schafer grew up on a farm in Wellesley, Ontario, Canada. She completed her BSc at the University of Guelph in 1993, and her PhD at the University of Victoria in 1999 where she worked with Prof. David J. Berg. She worked as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. T. Don Tilley. Career Schafer joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2001. She was shortly thereafter the recipient of the 2004 Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis and UBC's Teaching Excellence Award. In 2007, Schafer was promoted to Associate Professor and named a Sloan Fellow. In 2011, Schafer was appointed a Tier 2 Canada Research Chai ...
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University Of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top three universities in Canada. With an annual research budget of $759million, UBC funds over 8,000 projects a year. The Vancouver campus is situated adjacent to the University Endowment Lands located about west of downtown Vancouver. UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for Particle physics, particle and nuclear physics, which houses the world's largest cyclotron. In addition to the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC and the Max Planck Society collectively established the first Max Planck Institute in North America, specializing in quantum materials. One of the largest research libraries in Canada, the UBC Library system has over 9.9million volumes among it ...
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