Professor Tomislav Friščić PhD

• Professor & Leverhulme International Chair in Green & Sustainable Chemistry, University of Birmingham
• Adjunct Professor, McGill University (Canada)
• Affiliate Professor, Concordia University (Canada)
• Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (corresponding member)

Previous posts

• Assistant (2011-2016), Associate (2016-2019) & Full Professor (2019-2022), McGill University (Canada)
• Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Mechanochemistry and Solid-state reactivity
• Herchel Smith Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (2008-2011)
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science, University of Cambridge (2006-2008)
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Iowa (2002-2006)
• B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Zagreb (1997-2001)

Taught a wide range of courses at McGill University, ranging from General Chemistry to Advanced Materials, Supramolecular Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Laboratory and Integrated Chemistry Laboratory

• Joseph M. Marrett (Ph.D. 2022-)
• Yong Teoh (Ph.D. 2021-)
• Linda Bechnak (Ph.D. 2020-)
• Jogirdas Vainauskas (Ph.D. 2020-)
• Galen Suh (Ph.D. 2019-)
• Cameron B. Lennox (Ph.D. 2019-)
• J. P. Dan Therien (Ph.D. 2018- , co-supervised with K. Auclair)
• Jean-Louis Do (Ph.D. 2018- , co-supervised with L. A. Cuccia)
• Farshid Effaty (Ph.D. 2020- , co-supervised with X. Ottenwaelder)
• Tristan H. Borchers (Ph.D. 2017-, co-supervised with C. J. Barrett)

Selected activities

Conference and symposium organisation

• Co-Chair (with S. L. James), Faraday Discussion on Mechanochemistry: Fundamentals, applications and future (Cambridge, UK, September 12-14, 2022, Committee members: S. L. James, J. Mack, J. Batteas, H. Ito, L. Maini, D. Crawford)
• Co-organizer, Mechanochemistry and Tribochemistry - New Chemistry for the Future, Symposium at the joint 51st International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) General Assembly, 48th World Chemistry Congress and 104th Canadian Chemistry Conference & Exhibition (with J. Batteas, E. Colacino, 13-20 August 2021)
• Co-organizer, Implementing Mechanochemistry Processes in Chemical Manufacturing & Research Symposium at the 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and 9th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (with A. H. Moores, J. Mack, Reston, VA, USA, 9-11 June 2019)
• Lecturer, “Train the Facilitators Workshop”, 5-day intense Green Chemistry course organized by Yale University and UNIDO (Belgrade, Serbia, 26-30 November 2018)
• Discussion Leader, Gordon Conference on Preclinical Form & Formulation for Drug Discovery (Stoweflake, VT, 5-9 June 2017)
• Co-organizer, Mechanochemistry and solvent-free chemistry, Pacifichem 2015 (with E. Juaristi, C. L. Raston (Honolulu, Dec 15-20, 2015) (Symposium #322)
• Organizer, The First Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec, CEMWOQ-1 (Montreal, 20 May 2014)
• Co-Chair, 170th Faraday Discussion (Mechanochemistry), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (May 21-23, 2014, Committee members: S. L. James, J. W. Steed, E. Boldyreva, C. Bolm, J. Mack)

Committee membership

• Chair of the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography (CNCC, 2020-current)
• Lead Investigator, NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry (CMCC, 2020-current, along with Batteas, Martini, Braunschweig, Carpick, Felts, Freedman, Rappe - https://www.chem.tamu.edu/cmcc/people_page.php)
• International Advisory Board of the International Mechanochemical Association (IMA, 2011-current)
• Canadian Representative in the American Crystallographic Association (ACA, 2017-2020)

Editorial roles

• Editorial Board member, RSC journal CrystEngComm (2013-2019)
• Guest Editor (with A. J. Cruz-Cabeza, A. Lemmerer, M. D. Ward), Special Issue of ACS journal Cryst. Growth Des. in memory of Prof. J. Bernstein (2019/2020)
• Guest Editor (with D.-K. Bučar), Special Issue of ACS journal Cryst. Growth Des. honoring Prof. W. Jones and his contributions to organic solid-state chemistry (2018/2019)
• Guest Editor (with R. Banerjee, G. M. Day and H. Zhang) for the 2016 New Talent Special Issue of the RSC journal CrystEngComm (2016)
• Associate Editor, Molecular Crystals & Liquid Crystals (Taylor & Francis journal) (2015-2017)
• Guest Editor (with C. B. Aakeröy) for the North America 2014 IYCr Celebration-themed issue of the RSC journal CrystEngComm (2014)
• Guest Editor (with S. L. James), Special Issue of Chemical Communications on "Mechanochemistry: fundamentals and applications in synthesis" (2013)
• Guest Editor (with S. L. James), Special Issue of Chemical Society Reviews on "Mechanochemistry" (2013)
• Guest Editor (with G. M. Day) for the Special Issue of the RSC journal CrystEngComm on "Dynamic behaviour in the solid state" (2011)