Dr Kevin Kasten
Dr Kevin Kasten
PDRA
kk47@st-andrews.ac.uk
ABOUT
Kevin was born and raised in Berlin (Germany) where he conducted his undergraduate studies at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Kevin carried out his final year research project in the Smith group, studying NHC catalysed regiodivergent Steglich rearrangements before completing his PhD within the group investigating cinchona alkaloid catalysis. He then obtained a post-doc position with Peter O’Brien at the University of York. Kevin is now a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Andrew Smith investigating the effect of Chalcogen-bonding within isothiourea catalysed reactions.