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September 2025
Prof. Jason Hein was recognized with Scripps Research’s Frontiers in Chemistry Award Lecture in September. The Scripps Frontiers in Chemistry Award Lecture is an invited distinguished lectureship at Scripps Research given to scientists whose work is seen as defining the future direction of chemical science. This is a flagship forum followed by top academic and industry R&D leaders.
August 2025
The Hein Group participated in the 2025 Accelerate Conference, showcasing our automation platforms and leading talks, posters, and a workshop on process chemistry training. The workshop highlighted emerging skills in laboratory automation and self-driving labs, offering insights for students, early-career scientists, and industry professionals.
August 2025
A ground-breaking partnership between the University of British Columbia’s Hein Lab, Seoul National University (SNU), and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) is pushing the boundaries of battery energy storage research.
July 2025
UBC faculty can now apply for up to $100K to partner with the Acceleration Consortium team in advancing self-driving lab development from synthesis tools, analytical tools, automation hardware, to autonomous algorithms.
June 2025
Prof. Jason Hein attended the signing ceremony in Seoul during Premier Eby’s Asia trade mission, recognizing his contributions to developing the new UBC–POSTECH partnership.
June 2025
Our paper “IvoryOS: an interoperable web interface for orchestrating Python-based self-driving laboratories” was recently published in Nature Communications. Learn more about the inspiration, the novel features, and what’s next in this Behind the Paper.
June 2025
We’re excited to welcome five undergraduate students who will join us in advancing the Acceleration Consortium’s self-driving lab research this summer! They are Leo (NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards student researcher), Clara and Mahtab (Work Learn undergraduate research assistants), Amy (undergraduate research assistant), and Yuheng (visiting international research student).
April 2025
Congratulations to Prof. Jason Hein for receiving the 2025 UBC Killam Teaching Prize! The Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to faculty nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching.
January 2025
Congratulations to Prof. Jason Hein for being selected as the 2025 winner of the R. U. Lemieux Award, which is presented to an organic chemist who has made a distinguished contribution to any area of organic chemistry.
August 2024
Thank you to everyone who supported Accelerate 2024! It was a great opportunity to share our latest self-driving lab research and connect with fellow changemakers.
Special congratulations to our PhD student Rebekah Greenwood, who won a poster prize for her work “Computing crystals: a self-driving lab for the purification of multicomponent solids via cooling crystallization”!
May 2024
We’re excited to welcome five new undergraduate students who will join us in advancing the Acceleration Consortium’s self-driving lab research! They are Clark and Kara (co-op student researchers), Dylan (visiting international research student), Leo (NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards student researcher), and Lucy (undergraduate research assistant).
May 2024
Our paper “Applying Quantum Mechanics to Deconvolute Benchtop 1H NMR Reaction Data” was highlighted by Organic Process Research & Development in “Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers”.
May 2024
Our paper “Insights into the Synthesis of NHC-stabilized Au Nanoclusters through Real-time Reaction Monitoring” has been selected and included in the 2023 most popular materials chemistry articles collection of Chemical Science.
March 2024
Our paper “An Adaptive Auto-Synthesizer using Online PAT Feedback to Flexibly Perform a Multistep Reaction” has received enough downloads to rank within the top 10% of papers published in Chemistry – Methods.
February 2024
Our paper “Universal chemical programming language for robotic synthesis repeatability” was highlighted in a Nature Synthesis article.
January 2024
Our paper “Keeping an “eye” on the experiment: computer vision for real-time monitoring and control” was featured by Phys.org.
January 2024
Congratulations to our outgoing MSc student Noah, who landed the position of Educational Specialist, Indigenous Initiatives at UBC Department of Chemistry.
January 2024
Our PhD student Rama talks about her graduate journey, challenges, advice to new students, and more.
January 2024
Our paper “Keeping an “eye” on the experiment: computer vision for real-time monitoring and control” was featured in the news by Chemistry World.
December 2023
Our paper “Keeping an “eye” on the experiment: computer vision for real-time monitoring and control” was recommended by Chemical Science referees as a Hot Article and chosen by the editorial team as a Pick of the Week.
September 2023
Yusuke’s and Junliang’s paper “Liquid/liquid heterogeneous reaction monitoring: Insights into biphasic Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling” was highlighted by Organic Process Research & Development in “Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers”.
August 2023
Congratulations to PhD student Rama El-khawaldeh, who won first prize for her poster “Computer vision for real-time monitoring and control”!
July 2023
PhD student Mason Guy spoke about automatic peak assignment and feedback-controlled synthesis of complex one-pot multistep Suzuki-Miyaura couplings at the 21st International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Toward Organic Synthesis.
