Welcome to the Herbert Group website! PictureE. Herbert


We are a synthetic inorganic chemistry research group based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Manitoba Institute for Materials (MIM) at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. We focus on using organometallic and inorganic chemistry, electrochemistry and polymer science to tackle problems in clean energy and environmental remediation, including aqueous organometallic/inorganic chemistry, small molecule activation including carbon dioxide reduction and utilization, and water treatment.

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Group News
Thrilled to have our article on covalency and excited state ordering accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Great work, Jason and Issiah! And thanks to our wonderful collaborators at Case Western Reserve University and SLAC!

Well done #TeamSHArK!!!! Great work from our whole team - Issiah, Baldeep, Robert & Dion - and all our SHArK participants from Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute and Maples MET School for completing a fantastic on-line version of SHArK this year!!!

HUGE congratulations to our newest scholarship holders Dion Nemez (NSERC PGS-D3), Baldeep Sidhu (NSERC CGS-M) and Robert Ortiz (UMGF)!!!! Keep doing us all proud!!!!!

Group Alumnus Dr. Rajarshi Mondal has been awarded a prestigious Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Prof. Z. Nairoukh at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem! Congratulations, Raj!!!

The successful defences keep on coming!!! Congratulations to Jason Braun and Pavan Mandapati for their successful PhD defences in December 2020!!! We'll miss you both!!!

We're excited to see what you come up with in your postdoctoral position at Harvard University with the Mason Group! Good luck!!!!

Big news! The Herbert Group is now on Twitter! Follow us @herbert_lab

Congratulations to Rajarshi Mondal, the Herbert Group's first PhD! Rajarshi successfully defended his thesis in December 2019. Well done! Good luck with your PDF with the Nairoukh Group at Hebrew University in Jerusalem!
Big congratulations to Jason and Issiah for their paper on nanosecond charge-transfer excited state lifetimes in iron coordination complexes which is now on-line in Nature Chemistry! Well done!!!! For more on this exciting work, see the accompanying blog post.
Congratulations to Jason, Dion, Rajarshi, Issiah and Baldeep for their impressive showing at the Chemistry Awards Night! Keep up the GREAT work, everyone!

Chemistry Centennial Scholarship (Jason Braun)

Theodore (Ted) Schaefer Graduate Award in Chemistry (Issiah Lozada)

Faculty of Science CANGENE Award (Issiah Lozada)

Hugh J. Anderson Graduate Award in Chemistry (Dion Nemez, Rajarshi Mondal, Jason Braun, Issiah Lozada)

Demchuk Scholarship for Women in Chemistry (Baldeep Sidhu)

Hugh J. Anderson Undergraduate Scholarship in Chemistry (Baldeep Sidhu)

Reverend Joseph Hogg Scholarship (Baldeep Sidhu)

A.N. Campbell Scholarship (Baldeep Sidhu)

The good news keeps on coming! Congratulations to Robert (1st place, Oral Presentations - Overall; 2nd place, Poster Presentations - Inorganic), Jesse (3rd place, Oral Presentations - Overall; 1st place, Poster Presentations - Inorganic) and Baldeep (1st place, Poster Presentations - Organic) for their presentations at the ​2019 Manitoba Chemistry Symposium!
Our SHArK North! young materials researchers from Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, Grant Park High School and Maples MET School presented their work today at the 2019 Manitoba Materials Conference! Well done everyone! A big thank you to lead mentors Issiah and Dion, and to mentors Baldeep, Robert, Jesse and Genesis, and to Mr. Trieu for a fantastic year of SHArK!

Congratulations to Robert (winner!), Jesse (Honourable Mention) and Baldeep (Honourable Mention) for their performance in the Poster Competition! Well done!!!
A very special thank you to Research Manitoba and the ​Government of Manitoba for supporting our work on novel platinum theranostic agents with a Research Manitoba Young Investigator Award!
Congratulations to Rajarshi and Issiah on their latest research paper, published as a cover article in a themed collection in Journal of Materials Chemistry C!  
Welcome Dr. Paul Gray to the group! Paul is a Burford Group alumnus, and recent transplant from UVic. Good luck getting those snow tires on, Paul!
BIG CONGRATS to Pat on being awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement at the Masters' Level!!!! Keep doing us proud, buddy!!!
Congrats to Issiah for transferring into the Ph.D. program!

Congrats to Jason on winning best poster presentation at the 8th Annual Manitoba Materials Conference!

Congrats to Raj and Issiah on their latest Inorg. Chem. article!
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Congrats to Pat and Dion on their Front Cover article in ChemComm!
Congratulations to Jason on being awarded a University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship for his PhD studies! Well done!
Oscar and Michael did a fantastic job presenting their summer work at the Undergraduate Summer Research Poster Session! Good job guys!
Congratulations to Pat on successfully defending his MSc as well! Not so much on nearly taking out his eye with the champagne cork ;) Pat is off to Europe to "find himself" - hopefully he finds his way back before starting his next step in the US! 
Congratulations to Peter on successfully defending his MSc thesis! Pete will start Medical School at the University of Manitoba in Fall 2017 and we wish him all the best on his new journey to become a "real" doctor! :)