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Jason Hudlicky


Jason grew up all over the East Coast from Blacksburg, VA to Gainesville, FL, and, most recently, in St. Catharines, ON (about 15 miles from Niagara Falls). Having grown up surrounded by chemistry and running columns since the ripe age of 14, it seemed almost predestined that he would continue to study chemistry. Indeed, in 2008 he switched coasts to attend college at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. Try as he might to break the mold, it proved quite futile as Jason graduated in 2013 with a B.A. in Art History and a B.Sc. in Chemistry. After spending several months working in a lab at Charles University in Prague, he began graduate school at Vanderbilt in 2014, working toward the total synthesis of Bielschowskysin. Outside of chemistry, Jason enjoys playing hockey, going to art museums around the world, and thinking about crazy, mind-blowing stuff. Did you know the strongest known acid is helium hydride, with an estimated pKa of -65?