Appointments:
Associate Professor (2025--, University of Victoria)
Adjunct Professor (2025--, Dalhousie University)
University Research Chair (2023-2025, Dalhousie University)
Associate Professor (2023-2025, Dalhousie University)
Assistant Professor (2018-2023, Dalhousie University)
Training:
PDF - University of Toronto (2018, Douglas Stephan)
PDF - University of Bristol (2017, Ian Manners)
PhD - University of Victoria (2015, Neil Burford)
BSc - McMaster University (2010)
Accolades:
Dalhousie University Research Chair (2023-2025)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2023-2025)
CNC-IUPAC Travel Award (2023)
Dalhousie Faculty of Science Killam Research Prize (2023)
Dalhousie President's Research Award (2021)
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017)
Governor General’s Gold Medal for Doctoral Research (2015)
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2012-2015)
Short bio: Saurabh Chitnis obtained his PhD with Neil Burford at the University of Victoria (2015) as an NSERC and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, where his doctoral thesis was recognized with a Governor General’s Gold Medal. He then performed postdoctoral research with Ian Manners at the University of Bristol as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017) and later with Doug Stephan at the University of Toronto (2017-2018). He started his independent career in main group chemistry at Dalhousie University in July 2018, where in 2023 he received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. He has been profiled in Chemical Communications as an Emerging Investigators (2020) and in Dalton Transaction as a New Talents (2020). More recently, he recieved the Dalhousie Faculty of Science Killam Prize (2023), the CNC-IUPAC Travel Award (2023), the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2023), and was named a Dalhousie University Research Chair (2023). In July 2025, the Saurabh returned to the University of Victoria as an Associate Professor and Research Chair. In his free time, Saurabh enjoys biking, hiking, exploring the coastline of Atlantic (while in Halifax) and Pacific (while on Vancouver Island) Canada with his partner and dog Milo, and pretending that he is a master chef and brewer, despite evidence to the contrary.