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Philipp Natho is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in the group of Professor Renzo Luisi in the Department of Pharmacy-Drug Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" (Italy). Philipp has expertise in synthetic methodology development with a particular focus on (and passion for) the synthesis and application of strained heterocycles. Philipp received his PhD from Imperial College London (United Kingdom) developing methodologies for the expansion and functionalization of strained cyclic systems and applying this technology to natural product synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Philip J. Parsons. For his PhD research he was awarded the Syngenta Scholarship (Syngenta) as well as the Young Chemist Award (Scientific Update). He also worked on the synthesis of highly substituted pyridines under the supervision of Prof. Rick L. Danheiser at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). After his PhD, Philipp joined The Boston Consulting Group in Munich (Germany) working as a management consultant for two years, before returning to academia as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He is the co-author of over 25 journal publications and review articles.
