User:Matthew Todd

Contact Info

Mat, recently

Associate Professor Matthew Todd, School of Chemistry, Building F11, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia

I manage my lab at The University of Sydney.

You can find me on Google+, Twitter, Facebook and on my blog.

If you're looking for our open science research, try:
The Open Source Malaria (OSM) Consortium
or maybe an overview of what we think open science is, courtesy of an open access Nature Chemistry article.
There's also The Synaptic Leap - where the open projects got started
our PZQ LabBlog for some raw data on the first open science project
or more raw data in the OSM project
as well as the associated wiki

Mat, more recently

which contains the Story So Far,
and smaller malaria updates there's the malaria Twitter account or G+ page and a selection of talks/meetings on Youtube More generally you could also read some of my research group's papers
or some papers we're writing

Mat, near some graffiti

Short Bio

Mat Todd was born in Manchester, England. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Cambridge University in 1999, was a Wellcome Trust postdoc at The University of California, Berkeley, a college fellow back at Cambridge University, a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London and since 2005 has been at the School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney where he is Associate Professor.

His research interests include the development of new ways to make molecules, particularly how to make chiral molecules with new catalysts. He is also interested in making metal complexes that do unusual things when they meet biological molecules or metal ions. His lab motto is "To make the right molecule in the right place at the right time", and his students are currently trying to work out what this means.

He has a significant interest in open science, and how it may be used to accelerate research, with particular emphasis on open source discovery of new medicines. He founded and currently leads the Open Source Malaria (OSM) and Open Source TB (OSTB) consortia, and is a founder of a broader Open Source Pharma movement. In 2011 he was awarded a NSW Scientist of the Year award in the Emerging Research category for his work in open science and in 2012 the OSM consortium was awarded one of three Wellcome Trust/Google/PLoS Accelerating Science Awards. He is on the Editorial Boards of PLoS One, Chemistry Central Journal, ChemistryOpen and Nature Scientific Reports.

Education

• 2005- Lecturer then Senior Lecturer then Associate Professor, University of Sydney
• 2001-2005, Lecturer in Chemistry, Queen Mary, University of London
• 2000-2001, College Fellow and Lecturer, New Hall College, Cambridge University
• 1999-2000, Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
• 1999, PhD, Organic Chemistry, Cambridge University
• 1995, MA, Natural Science, Cambridge University

Research interests

1. Organic synthesis and methodology
2. Asymmetric Catalysis
3. Chemical Biology
4. Open Science

Publications

See the main lab list

OpenWetWare links

• Introductory tutorial
• OpenWetWare help pages