Harvard University
Dr. Jacobsen is the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry at Harvard University. He is a consultant for Merck & Co., Inc., Sepracor, Inc., and Amgen, Inc. Dr. Jacobsen has received numerous awards for his endeavors, including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990), the Packard Fellowship (1991), the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1992), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1992), the Cope Scholar Award (1993), the Fluka "Reagent of the Year" Prize (1994), the Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1996), the Baekeland Medal (1999), the ACS Award for Creativity in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2001), and the election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2004). Dr. Jacobsen received his Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.