Peter Jonathan Rutledge is a New Zealand chemist and professor at the School of Chemistry,

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. His research has focused on drug development for

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, antibiotics, and metal sensing. He has engaged in some research activity on catalysis.

Education

Rutledge received his BSc in chemistry and biochemistry from the

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in 1993. He received his MSc from the same institution with first class honours in chemistry in 1995. He left

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in 1995 and obtained his DPhil at

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working with Jack Edward Baldwin in 1999. He was a

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at the same institution until 2003.

Career and research

Rutledge has held college lectureships at

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, from 2000 to 2001 and

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, from 2001 to 2002. In 2003, he moved to become a lecturer at the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology at

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. In 2006, he relocated to the

and was an associate professor during the years 2014 to 2019. In 2019, he was promoted to a full professor of chemistry. At the

, Rutledge regularly collaborated with the group of Matthew H. Todd until his departure to

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in 2018.

Honours and awards

* 2012 – Pearson Education RACI Centenary of Federation Chemistry Educator of the Year Award * 2011 – Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching * 2011 – Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Teaching Excellence * 2010 – Vice-Chancellor's Award for Support of the Student Experience * 2008 – NSW and ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Award * 2007 – RACI Athel Beckwith Lectureship * 2006 – RACI Nyholm Lectureship

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rutledge, Peter Living people New Zealand organic chemists New Zealand scientists Academic staff of the University of Sydney New Zealand chemists Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Oxford