Joel Hawkins's Biography

Joel Hawkins, Senior Research Fellow, Pfizer Global Research and Development

Joel Hawkins received his Ph.D. at MIT in 1986 with Professor Barry Sharpless. He went on to become an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech with Professor Robert Grubbs. As an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley from 1987 to 1993, he studied asymmetric Diels-Alder catalysts and fullerene chemistry. In 1993, he moved to Pfizer where he is a Senior Research Fellow in Chemical Research and Development and is particularly interested in the development and application of new technologies for pharmaceutical process research and development.