Stephanie MaQuarrie
Cape Breton University, Canada
Biography
In 1996 Dr. MacQuarrie started her academic career at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. She completed three years of undergraduate research and published 8 research papers under her academic advisor Dr. Richard Langler. After she completed her BSc she went on to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to do a PhD in organic chemistry. She had discovered a real passion for two things; chemistry and teaching. She decided early on that she would pursue the academic route and become a Chemistry professor. She did her graduate research on design and synthesis of chiral amino acids using a benzodiazepine scaffold with Dr. Paul Carlier. After receiving her PhD in 2005 she accepted a post-doctoral position in Dr. Cathleen Crudden’s research group at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON where she worked on chiral materials and Palladium catalysis. In 2009 Dr. MacQuarrie accepted a position at Cape Breton University as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry. Dr. MacQuarrie has a very active research group funded through a 5-year National Science and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant and multiple industrial research grants (NSERC Engage, Mitacs). Currently, Dr. MacQuarrie has 5 undergraduate students and two post-doctoral researcher working on a variety of projects in her lab ranging from developing reusable, cost effective, greener alternative organic catalysts to investigating unique biomass. She is also a recipient of two Canadian Foundation for Innovation grants. Dr. MacQuarrie has auhored more than 25 peer reviewed papers already in her early career.