Professor Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰 PhD

Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰

School of Chemistry
Leverhulme International Professor in Green and Sustainable Chemistry

Contact details

Email
t.friscic@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Chemistry
Haworth Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Tomislav Friščić is a Professor and Leverhulme International Chair in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. He is an expert in solid-state chemistry, and pursues the applications and  fundamental understanding of solid-state reactivity, such as mechanochemistry, photochemistry, thermochemistry, and more with the ultimate aim to establish a new, more efficient and environmentally-friendly system of chemical and materials synthesis. His work often involves industry partners in the pharmaceuticals, mining, metals and advanced materials space, and he is a co-founder of two start-up companies.

He has co-authored >300 research publications, book chapters and patent applications, and his group’s research has led to numerous awards, including the John C. Polanyi Award by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (2021), the “Spiridion Brusina” Medal of the Croatian Society for Natural Sciences (2021), the Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry by the Canadian Society for Chemistry (2019), National Research Council Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences (2018), the RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize and Lectureship (2011) etc.

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Qualifications

  • Professor & Leverhulme International Chair in Green & Sustainable Chemistry, University 麻豆精选
  • Adjunct Professor, McGill University (Canada)
  • Affiliate Professor, Concordia University (Canada)
  • Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (corresponding member)

Previous posts

  • Assistant (2011-2016), Associate (2016-2019) & Full Professor (2019-2022), McGill University (Canada)
  • Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Mechanochemistry and Solid-state reactivity
  • Herchel Smith Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (2008-2011)
  • Post-doctoral Research Associate, Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science, University of Cambridge (2006-2008)
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Iowa (2002-2006)
  • B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Zagreb (1997-2001)

Biography

Teaching

Taught a wide range of courses at McGill University, ranging from General Chemistry to Advanced Materials, Supramolecular Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Laboratory and Integrated Chemistry Laboratory

Postgraduate supervision

  • Joseph M. Marrett (Ph.D. 2022-)
  • Yong Teoh (Ph.D. 2021-)
  • Linda Bechnak (Ph.D. 2020-)
  • Jogirdas Vainauskas (Ph.D. 2020-)
  • Galen Suh (Ph.D. 2019-)
  • Cameron B. Lennox (Ph.D. 2019-)
  • J. P. Dan Therien (Ph.D. 2018- , co-supervised with K. Auclair)
  • Jean-Louis Do (Ph.D. 2018- , co-supervised with L. A. Cuccia)
  • Farshid Effaty (Ph.D. 2020- , co-supervised with X. Ottenwaelder)
  • Tristan H. Borchers (Ph.D. 2017-, co-supervised with C. J. Barrett)

Other activities

Selected activities

Conference and symposium organisation

  • Co-Chair (with S. L. James), Faraday Discussion on Mechanochemistry: Fundamentals, applications and future (Cambridge, UK, September 12-14, 2022, Committee members: S. L. James, J. Mack, J. Batteas, H. Ito, L. Maini, D. Crawford)
  • Co-organizer, Mechanochemistry and Tribochemistry - New Chemistry for the Future, Symposium at the joint 51st International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) General Assembly, 48th World Chemistry Congress and 104th Canadian Chemistry Conference & Exhibition (with J. Batteas, E. Colacino, 13-20 August 2021)
  • Co-organizer, Implementing Mechanochemistry Processes in Chemical Manufacturing & Research Symposium at the 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and 9th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (with A. H. Moores, J. Mack, Reston, VA, USA, 9-11 June 2019)
  • Lecturer, “Train the Facilitators Workshop”, 5-day intense Green Chemistry course organized by Yale University and UNIDO (Belgrade, Serbia, 26-30 November 2018)
  • Discussion Leader, Gordon Conference on Preclinical Form & Formulation for Drug Discovery (Stoweflake, VT, 5-9 June 2017)
  • Co-organizer, Mechanochemistry and solvent-free chemistry, Pacifichem 2015 (with E. Juaristi, C. L. Raston (Honolulu, Dec 15-20, 2015) (Symposium #322)
  • Organizer, The First Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec, CEMWOQ-1 (Montreal, 20 May 2014)
  • Co-Chair, 170th Faraday Discussion (Mechanochemistry), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (May 21-23, 2014, Committee members: S. L. James, J. W. Steed, E. Boldyreva, C. Bolm, J. Mack)

Committee membership

  • Chair of the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography (CNCC, 2020-current)
  • Lead Investigator, NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry (CMCC, 2020-current, along with Batteas, Martini, Braunschweig, Carpick, Felts, Freedman, Rappe - https://www.chem.tamu.edu/cmcc/people_page.php)
  • International Advisory Board of the International Mechanochemical Association (IMA, 2011-current)
  • Canadian Representative in the American Crystallographic Association (ACA, 2017-2020)


Editorial roles

  • Editorial Board member, RSC journal CrystEngComm (2013-2019)
  • Guest Editor (with A. J. Cruz-Cabeza, A. Lemmerer, M. D. Ward), Special Issue of ACS journal Cryst. Growth Des. in memory of Prof. J. Bernstein (2019/2020)
  • Guest Editor (with D.-K. Bučar), Special Issue of ACS journal Cryst. Growth Des. honoring Prof. W. Jones and his contributions to organic solid-state chemistry (2018/2019)
  • Guest Editor (with R. Banerjee, G. M. Day and H. Zhang) for the 2016 New Talent Special Issue of the RSC journal CrystEngComm (2016)
  • Associate Editor, Molecular Crystals & Liquid Crystals (Taylor & Francis journal) (2015-2017)
  • Guest Editor (with C. B. Aakeröy) for the North America 2014 IYCr Celebration-themed issue of the RSC journal CrystEngComm (2014)
  • Guest Editor (with S. L. James), Special Issue of Chemical Communications on "Mechanochemistry: fundamentals and applications in synthesis" (2013)
  • Guest Editor (with S. L. James), Special Issue of Chemical Society Reviews on "Mechanochemistry" (2013)
  • Guest Editor (with G. M. Day) for the Special Issue of the RSC journal CrystEngComm on "Dynamic behaviour in the solid state" (2011)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Manyepedza, T, Auvray, T, Hendi, R, Aliev, G, Friscic, T & Rees, N 2025, '', Applied Materials Today, vol. 42, 102582.

Manyepedza, T, Auvray, T, Fri拧膷i膰, T & Rees, NV 2024, '', Electrochemistry Communications, vol. 160, 107678.

Ferguson, M & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2024, '', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 26, no. 13, pp. 9940-9947.

Sobczak, S, Fidelli, AM, Do, JL, Demopoulos, GP, Moores, A, Fri拧膷i膰, T & Katrusiak, A 2024, '', Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 735-744.

Leger, ME, Guo, J, MacMillan, B, Titi, HM, Fri拧膷i膰, T, Balcom, B & Blight, BA 2024, '', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 543-550.

Sadeghi, MA, Khan, ZA, Agnaou, M, Hu, L, Litster, S, Kongkanand, A, Padgett, E, Muller, DA, Friscic, T & Gostick, J 2024, '', Applied Energy, vol. 353, 122004.

Farajat, D, Do, JL, Forgione, P, Fri拧膷i膰, T, Cuccia, LA & Li, CJ 2024, '', Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis.

Marrett, JM, Titi, HM, Teoh, Y & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2024, '', Chemical Science, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 298-306.

Borchers, TH, Topi膰, F, Arhangelskis, M, Ferguson, M, Lennox, CB, Julien, PA & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2024, '', Chem.

Floyd, K, Gonnet, L, Fri拧膷i膰, T & Batteas, J 2024, '', RSC Mechanochemistry.

Vainauskas, J, Wahrhaftig-Lewis, A & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2024, '', Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) , vol. 63, no. 37, e202408053.

Editorial

Batteas, J & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2025, '', RSC Mechanochemistry, vol. 2025, no. 2, pp. 175-177.

Batteas, JD & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2024, '', RSC Mechanochemistry, vol. 1.

Letter

Hamzehpoor, E, Effaty, F, Borchers, TH, Stein, RS, Wahrhaftig-Lewis, A, Ottenwaelder, X, Fri拧膷i膰, T & Perepichka, DF 2024, '', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 63, no. 51, e202404539.

Al Rahal, O, Ferguson, M, Lennox, CB, Male, L & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2024, '', Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), vol. 60, no. 58, pp. 7431-7434.