Professor of Chemistry, La Trobe University
Dr Dutton obtained his PhD in 2010 under Prof. Paul J. Ragogna at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His research focused on the Lewis acidic coordination chemistry of selenium and tellurium. He then moved onto a postdoctoral fellowship under Prof. Warren E. Piers at The University of Calgary supported by an NSERC PDF, researching mechanistic aspects of dihydrogen activation by boron containing species. In July 2011 Dr. Dutton took up a position as a Lecturer at La Trobe University. He was awarded a 3-year ARC DECRA in 2013 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in November 2014. In 2017 he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and promoted to Associate Professor, and Professor in 2021. His research program is diverse, encompassing inorganic, organic and theoretical chemistry with a focus on the discovery of new reactivity and bonding.
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