Alex Schuppe

Alex was born and raised in southern California. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he investigated the metal-free C–H hydroxylation of arenes in Prof. Dionicio Siegel’s laboratory. While conducting his doctoral work with Prof. Timothy Newhouse at Yale University, he synthesized several structurally distinct limonoid natural products. As an Arnold O. Beckman Fellow in Prof. Stephen Buchwald’s laboratory at MIT, Alex primarily focused on the development of enantioselective carbon–carbon bond forming reactions enabled by copper hydride catalysis. Alex will begin his independent career at Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 2022, focusing on methods development, transition-metal catalysis, and total synthesis. 

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