Brett P. Fors

Education:

2011 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006 B.Sc. in Chemistry, Montana State University

Employment:

2023 – present Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
2019 – 2022 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
2014 – 2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
2011 – 2014 Elings Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Craig J. Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006 – 2011 Graduate Student with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Contact Information:

Cornell University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Physical Sciences Building
Ithaca, NY  14853
email: bpf46@cornell.edu, phone: 607-254-1487

 

Honors and Awards:

  • NSF CAREER Award – 2018
  • Sloan Research Fellowship – 2018
  • Arthur K. Doolittle Award – 2018
  • JACS Young Investigator Virtual Issue – 2017
  • Scialog Fellow – 2017
  • ACS PMSE Young Investigator – 2017
  • 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award – 2016
  • PolyChar Bruce Hartman Young Investigator Prize – 2015
  • Thieme Chemistry Journal Award – 2014
  • MRL/Dow Travel Fellowship – 2013
  • Elings Fellowship in Experimental Science – 2011
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship – 2010
  • Amgen Summer Fellowship – 2010
  • MIT Wyeth Scholar – 2010
  • ACS Organic Division Fellowship – 2010
  • Sigma-Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation Award – 2009
  • Merck Summer Fellowship – 2009
  • Roche Symposium: Excellence in Chemistry Award – 2009
  • William Asbornsen Albert Memorial Fellowship – 2009
  • Synstar Chemistry Award – 2006
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential Fellowship – 2006
  • EW Mares Chemistry Award – 2004, 2005
  • Energy Labs Scholarship – 2005
  • Montana Space Grant Consortium Scholarship – 2004