Tanner Jankins

Education

Undergraduate Institution: Northeastern University

Graduate Institution (PhD): The Scripps Research Institute

Biography

Tanner graduated from Northeastern University in 2017 with a B.S. in chemistry and chemical biology. During this time he worked as a medicinal chemist at Novartis in Cambridge for one year, and spent one year as a visiting researcher in the organometallic chemistry group at the Okinawa Institute of Technology (OIST) in Japan. He then joined the Ph.D. program at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA under the guidance of Professor Keary Engle. His doctoral research focused on controlled alkene chain walking using tungsten catalysts. In 2022 joined Professor Bill Morandi at ETH Zurich for postdoctoral studies and was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. With this fellowship, he joined the Hawker research group as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2024.