Todd Hyster
Professor of Chemistry Princeton University
Todd K. Hyster is a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. He received hisry from the University of Minnesota. He completed his Ph.D. with Tomislav Rovis at Colorado State University. As part of his Ph. B.S. in ChemistD., he was a Marie Curie Fellow with Thomas Ward at the University of Basel. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Frances Arnold at Caltech. He began his independent career at Princeton University in 2015. In 2021, he moved to Cornell University before returning to Princeton in 2023. His group has developed new methods in photoenzymatic catalysis.
Seminars
Wednesday 30th September 2026
Emerging Reactivity in Photoenzymatic Catalysis: Expanding Biocatalysis Beyond Native Enzyme Function
4:45 pm
- Explore how photoexcitation is being used to unlock non-native enzyme reactivity and access new catalytic pathways beyond natural biocatalysis
- Discuss emerging strategies for carbon–carbon bond formation via high-energy intermediates within engineered protein active sites
- Highlight recent advances in photoenzymatic catalysis and the potential to streamline the synthesis of complex, biologically relevant molecules
