Sophie Rousseaux

Associate Professor
sophie.rousseaux(a)utoronto.ca

Sophie Rousseaux is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, where she also holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Organic Chemistry and serves on the Scientific Leadership Team of the Acceleration Consortium. Dr. Rousseaux obtained her PhD from the University of Ottawa in 2012, working with the late Prof. Keith Fagnou on Pd-catalyzed aliphatic C–H bond functionalization reactions. In 2010, she moved to MIT to complete her graduate research with Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald. From 2012–2015, she worked with Prof. Harry L. Anderson, University of Oxford, on the self-assembly of porphyrin nanorings as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow and Glasstone Research Fellow, before starting her independent career at the University of Toronto. Her group’s research interests include organic synthesis, catalysis, and organometallic chemistry, with a particular focus on the synthesis of small rings and nitrile-containing molecules.

Selected Recent Awards
• ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2026)
• Chair’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Chemistry (2024)
• CSC Keith Fagnou Award (2023)
• McLean Award (2022)
• University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Early Career Supervision Award (2022)
• Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship (2022)
• Sloan Research Fellowship (2021)

Education and Experience
• Associate Professor, University of Toronto (2022 – present)
• Canada Research Chair in Organic Chemistry – Tier 2 (2016 – present)
• Assistant Professor, University of Toronto (2015 – 2022)
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and Glasstone Research Fellow, University of Oxford – Prof. Harry L. Anderson (2012–2015)
• Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College, University of Oxford (2012–2015)
• Visiting Ph.D. Student, MIT – Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald (2010–2011)
• Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Ottawa – Prof. Keith Fagnou (2007–2012)
• B.Sc., Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ottawa (2003–2007)