Tomislav Friščić
Professor in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University
Tomislav Friščić is a Professor at McGill University. He received his B.Sc. at the University of Zagreb with Branko Kaitner (2001), followed by a Ph.D. with Len MacGillivray at the University of Iowa (2006). He was a post-doctoral associate with William Jones (2006), a Herchel Smith Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2008), joining McGill University in 2011. His group is a team of excited and highly dynamic undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral scientists who work together to develop solid-state catalytic and self-assembly methodologies in diverse areas of organic, metal-organic, pharmaceutical and materials synthesis. He has co-authored >250 research and review articles, as well as book chapters, in the areas of solid-state and materials chemistry, Green Chemistry, crystal engineering and mechanochemistry. He is a co-founder of spin-off businesses Acsynam and Form-Tech Scientific, the Chair of the Canadian National C ommittee for Crystallography (CNCC), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
A full list of publication and talks of Prof. Friščić can be downloaded here.
Education
| 2002 - 2006 | Ph.D. in Chemistry with Prof. L. R.
MacGillivray (February 2006), University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA, USA. Thesis title: Linear templates and hydrogen bonding as general tools to control reactivity in molecular co-crystals |
| 1997 - 2001 | B. Sc. in Chemistry with Prof. B. Kaitner (October
2001), University of Zagreb, Zagreb,Croatia. Thesis title: Molecular and crystal Structures of Schiff Bases Derived from Non-branched Aliphatic α,ω-Diamines and Their Metal Complexes |
Professional Positions
| 2019 - | Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University |
| 2016 - 2019 | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University (Early Tenure) |
| 2018 - |
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University |
| 2016 - | Adjunct Researcher, Institute Ruđer Bošković |
| 2011 - 2016 | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University |
| 2008 - 2011 | Herchel Smith Research Fellow and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge |
| 2006 - 2008 | Postdoctoral Research at the University of Cambridge Chemistry Department and Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science with Prof. W. Jones |
| 2003 - 2006 | Research Assistant, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA |
| 2002 - 2003 | Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
| 2001 - 2002 | Teaching Assistant at the Laboratory for General and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia |
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
| 2019 | Visiting Lecturer, Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician", Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (8-14 Dec 2019) ("Department of Excellence Program") |
| 2019 | Visiting Professor, Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (2-29 May 2019) |
| 2019 | Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry, Canadian Society for Chemistry |
| 2018 | National Research Council Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences |
| 2018 | Elected Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada |
| 2018 | Royal Society of Canada Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry |
| 2018 | Elected Member of 2018-2019 Young Scientists cohort of the World Economic Forum |
| 2017 - 2019 | NSERC E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship |
| 2017 - 2020 | NSERC Discovery Accelerator |
| 2016 | McGill University Principal’s Award for Outstanding Emerging Researchers |
| 2015 - 2019 | McGill University Dawson Research Scholar (Tier 2 Canada Research Chair equivalent) |
| 2015 - 2017 | McGill University Tomlinson Research Award |
| 2014 | RSC ChemComm Emerging Investigator Award and Lectureship 2014 for Organic Chemistry (3 lectures: University of Ottawa, University College London and ICCOSS, Japan) |
| 2013 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2012 | Recognition Letter from the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Republic of Croatia for Scientific Contributions |
| 2011 | RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize and Lectureship (three lectures) for "developing solid-state methodologies which explore and combine new types of molecular self-assembly" |
| 2008 - 2011 | Herchel Smith Research Fellow and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge |
| 2010 | Best poster award at the 2010 Winter School on Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Bangalore, India |
| 2008 | Invited young scientist at the Set for Britain exhibition, House of Commons, London, UK |
| 2005 | Research internship in microbial biotechnology in the research group of Glenn R. Johnson, Air Force Research Laboratory, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, U.S. |
| 2004 | NSF Workshop on 'Models of Thought
Processes: Insights toward Chemical Systems' Arlington,
Virginia, USA University of Iowa Graduate College 3rd Place Award for the Top Presentation in Mathematical & Physical Sciences & Engineering at the James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum |
| 2003 - 2006 | Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Doctoral Fellowship |
| 2002 - 2003 | Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Iowa |
| 2001 | University of Zagreb Faculty of Science Award for Outstanding Achievements |
| 1999 - 2002 | Head of Croatian Chemical Society Student Division |
| 1999 - 2001 | Student representative at the University of Zagreb Student Senate |
| 1998 | University of Zagreb Dean's Award for undergraduate research |