Bio

Nilay was born in Suva, Fiji and spent the first 17 years of his life in Melbourne, Australia. After that he moved to Sydney where he received a B.Sc (2002) and an M.Sc (2003) from the University of Sydney working with Professor Leslie D Field. He completed a D.Phil (2006) as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Jennifer C Green and then worked for three years as a postdoctoral scholar with Professors John E Bercaw and Jay A Labinger at the California Institute of Technology. Nilay began as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Yale University in July 2009 and is currently a Professor of Chemistry.