Gabe Jones-Thomson

Gabe is a rising senior at Haverford College majoring in Chemistry and minoring in Physics. He aspires to create breakthrough tools for organic synthesis, increasing the accessibility of bioactive molecules relevant to developing new drugs, agrochemicals, and materials. At Haverford, he works in the Malachowski lab at near-by Bryn Mawr College, where his research is focused on the development of novel enantioselective cyclizations for the synthesis of interesting heterocycles with quaternary centers.

As an Amgen Scholar at UCLA, Gabe is researching metallaphotoredox catalysis in the Doyle lab. The Doyle lab seeks to advance chemical synthesis and catalysis by drawing upon photocatalysis, Nickel chemistry, and machine learning and data science. As he looks towards graduate school, Gabe is highly interested in the development of synthesis methods that leverage photochemical and electrochemical redox reactions, and to achieve such transformations enantioselectively, often through pairing with organocatalysis or transition metal catalysis. As a result, he is thrilled to be in the Doyle lab for the summer.
Gabe would like to thank his postdoc mentor in the Doyle lab, Dr. Rajat Maji, all members of the Doyle lab, and the Amgen Foundation for funding this incredible opportunity