Release: SOS 4.32, March 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Professor David Sarlah from Rice University, USA, becomes a member of the Science of Synthesis Editorial Board with effect of October 1st, 2025.

David obtained his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Ljubljana in his home country Slovenia before moving to the USA for undergraduate research in the labs of Prof. K. C. Nicolaou (Scripps) and Prof. Samuel Danishefsky (Columbia University). During his PhD in the Nicolaou group (finished in 2011) he worked on the total synthesis of complex natural products. David then returned to Europe to join Prof. Erick Carreira’s group at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) as a postdoctoral fellow entering the field of asymmetric catalysis.

Tehshik has been recognized for both his contributions to research and pedagogy with numerous awards, among them the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2010) and very recently the 2026 David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis by the ACS.