Draft:Tristan Lambert

Tristan Lambert is an American chemist and the William T. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, where he has also served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology since 2023.

Early life and education
Lambert was born in 1976 in Madison, Wisconsin, later moving to the nearby town of Black Earth. In 1998, he earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Lambert then started graduate school at University of California, Berkley with his advisor as David MacMillan. Lambert moved along with MacMillan to Caltech, where he was awarded a Ph.D. His thesis work involved the development and application of novel Claisen rearrangements. Lambert moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to pursue postdoctoral studies under Samuel Danishefsky from 2004 to 2006.

Career
In 2006, Lambert joined the faculty of Columbia University in the department of chemistry. In 2011, he became an Associate Professor, and in 2016 he was promoted to Full Professor. In January 2018, Lambert transferred to Cornell University. In 2023, he was named the William T. Miller Professor of Chemistry and later that year became the department chair of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Honors and Awards
Lambert has received multiple awards for his work in Organic Chemistry.


 * 2004-2006 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
 * 2009 Abbott Young Investigator Award
 * 2010 NSF CAREER award
 * 2010 Thieme SynLett/Synthesis Journal Award
 * 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
 * 2010 Amgen Young Investigator Award
 * 2010 ACS Young Investigators Symposium
 * 2011 Eli Lilly Grantee Award


 * 2014 Visiting Professorship, Phillips-University of Marburg
 * 2015 Swiss Chemical Society Lecturer
 * 2023 William T. Miller Professor of Chemistry