University of Victoria, Department of Chemistry
Assistant Professor, 2001-2005

University of Manitoba, Department of Chemistry
Assistant Professor, 1997-2001

University of Iowa
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1996-1997

Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (CNRS), Toulouse
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1994-1995

Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis; University of British Columbia (M. D. Fryzuk)
Thesis: Reactions of Silanes with a Dinuclear Rhodium Hydride Complex.

B.Sc., Honours Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland (L. K. Thompson)
Thesis: Coordination Complexes of Tetradentate (N₄) Pyridazine and Phthalazine Ligands.

Visiting Scholar, University of California Berkeley (2009)
Spanish Ministy of Science & Education Visiting Professorship, Zaragoza (2006)
Visiting Professor, University of York, UK (2005)
CNC-IUPAC Travel Award (2002)
E.R. Corey Memorial Fellowship, International Silicon Symposium (2002)
French Foreign Office Postdoctoral Fellowship (1994-95)

Outreach contact/Webmaster, Inorganic Chemistry Exchange program (ICE) (2011-)
Past-Chair/Nominations CIC/CSC Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2010-2012)
Chair CIC/CSC Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2008-2010)
Past-Chair, Inorganic Chemistry Exchange program (ICE) (2008-10)
Vice-Chair CIC/CSC Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2006-2008)
Chair and Founding Member, Inorganic Chemistry Exchange program (ICE) (2004-2008)
Member, Canadian Society for Chemistry, American Chemical Society.
Refereeing: Journals: Angewandte Chemie, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Dalton Transactions, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Nature, Organometallics. Proposals: NSERC, NSF, PRF, DOE

Research Publications (last 6 years).

• P. T. K. Lee, M. K. Skjel, L. Rosenberg*, "Borane-Catalyzed Si-H Activation Routes to Polysilanes Containing Thiolato Side-Chains", Organometallics, 2013, 32, 1575-1578.
• L. Rosenberg*, "Metal Complexes of Planar PR₂ Ligands: Examining the Carbene Analogy", Coord. Chem. Rev., 2012, 256, 606-626.
• M.-A. M. Hoyle, D. A. Pantazis, H. M. Burton, R. McDonald, L. Rosenberg*, "Benzonitrile Adducts of Terminal Diarylphosphido Complexes: Preparative Sources of "Ru=PR₂"", Organometallics, 2011, 30, 6458-6465.
  
• G. L. Gibson, K. M. E. Morrow, R. McDonald, L. Rosenberg*, "Diastereoselective Synthesis of a “Chiral-at-Ru” Secondary Phosphine Complex", Inorg. Chim. Acta (Invited contribution in honour of R. G. Bergman), 2011, 369, 133-139.
  
• S. M. Jackson, D. M. Chisholm, J. S. McIndoe*, L. Rosenberg*, "Using NMR and ESI-MS to Probe the Mechanism of Silane Dehydrocoupling Catalyzed by Wilkinson’s Catalyst", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2011, 327-330.
• E. J. Derrah, R. McDonald, L. Rosenberg*, "[2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions of Alkynes at a Ru-P π-Bond", Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 4592-4594.
• E. J. Derrah, D. A. Pantazis, R. McDonald, L. Rosenberg*, "Concerted [2+2]-Cycloaddition of Alkenes at a Ruthenium-Phosphorus Double Bond" Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 3367-3370.
• M. K. Skjel, A. Y. Houghton, A. E. Kirby, D. J. Harrison, R. McDonald, L. Rosenberg*, "Silane-Controlled Diastereoselectivity in the Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane-Catalyzed Reduction of α-Diketones to Silyl-Protected 1,2-Diols" Org. Lett., 2010, 12, 376.
• E. J. Derrah, K.E. Giesbrecht, R. McDonald, L. Rosenberg*, "Ruthenated Acetonitrile: Unusual Brønsted Acidity of a Polar, "Aprotic" Solvent" Organometallics, 2008, 27, 5025-5032.
• D. J. Harrrison, D. R. Edwards, R. McDonald, L. Rosenberg*, "Toward Selective Functionalisation of Oligosilanes: Borane-Catalysed Dehydrogenative Coupling of Silanes with Thiols" Dalton Trans. (Invited contribution to theme issue "Main group chemistry: from molecules to materials"), 2008, 3401-3411.  Designated "Hot Article".
  

Invited Research Talks (last 6 years).

2013 Southern California Organometallics Meeting; Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Gordon Research Conference; California Institute of Technology; University of Southern California; University of California, Los Angeles

2012 Simon Fraser University; 44th Silicon Symposium; University of Calgary

2011 94th CSC Montréal QC; University of British Columbia

2010 Organometallic Gordon Research Conference; University of Alberta

2009 University of California, Berkeley; University of Texas, El Paso

2008 Memorial University of Newfoundland; 91st CSC Edmonton AB; 6th International Workshop on Silicon-Based Polymers (ISPO-08), Busan, Korea

• Current students:  Peter Lee (Ph.D. candidate), Mark Fairchild (M.Sc. candidate).
  
• Former students: Roman Belli (ICE, B.Sc. candidate), Bryony McAllister (B.Sc. candidate), Krista Morrow (M.Sc. 2012), Michael Jarosz (B.Sc. candidate), Sophie Langis-Barsetti (ICE, B.Sc. 2012), Marc-André Hoyle (B.Sc. 2011), Miranda Skjel (B.Sc. 2011), Eric Derrah (Ph.D. 2009), Gregory Gibson (B.Sc. 2009), Hannah Burton (B.Sc. 2009), Gregory Zilinskas (ICE, B.Sc. 2009), Eleanor von Aderkas (B.Sc. 2008), Ryan Abel (B.Sc. 2010), Erica Jones (B.Sc. 2008), Andrea Kirby (ICE, B.Sc. 2008), Sarah Jackson (M.Sc. 2007), Karina Giesbrecht (B.Sc. 2007), Adrian Houghton (B.Sc. 2007), Shaun Hall  (ICE, B.Sc. 2006), Dawn Friesen (Ph.D. 2005), Dan Harrison (M.Sc. 2005), Cat Hughes (M.Sc. 2005), Sébastien Monfette (ICE, B.Sc. 2005), Kari Frantzen (B.Sc. 2005), Danielle Kobus (B.Sc 2004), Dave Edwards (B.Sc. 2004), Anika Louie (B. Sc. 2003), Jazmin Marlinga (B.Sc. 2003), Owen Bowles (B.Sc. 2002), Debbie Mitra (B.Sc. 2000), Colin Davis (B.Sc. 2000)
• Former Postdoctoral Research Associate: Junzhi Yao (1999-2000)

• 39th IUPAC / 86th CSC (Ottawa, 2003): Mechanisms in  Homogeneous Catalysis
• 85th CSC (Vancouver, 2002): Mike Fryzuk 50th Birthday Symposium

• XVIth International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry (Hamilton, 2011)
• 40th Silicon Symposium (Victoria, 2007, Conference Chair)
• BC Inorganic Weekend (University of Victoria, 2005)
  
• XXIst International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Vancouver, 2004)