Sarlah David

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

David Sarlah received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Ljubljana in 2006 and his Ph.D. from the Scripps Research Institute in 2011. Following a postdoctoral stay at ETH Zürich, he joined the faculty at Illinois in 2014. His research interests span from the synthesis of complex, biologically active natural products and the related chemical biology to methodology development.

Research projects: Dr. Sarlah’s research interests span form the synthesis of complex, biologically active anatural products and the related chemical biology to methodology development. Central to Dr. sarlah’s research program is the advancement of the science of synthesis. His research group is involved in natural products chemistry and synthesis, reaction innovation and design including asymmetric catalysis. The overall aim is to provide new solutions to the problems encountered at the frontline of organic synthesis that benefit chemistry and enable advances in the allied fields of chemical biology, material science and medicine.