Seb grew up in Venezuela, Mexico, and France. While pursuing a Master’s Degree in chemical engineering from the National Engineering Graduate School of Chemistry (ENSCM) in Montpellier, France, he started a Ph.D. program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) with Michael H. Nantz in 2008. Together, they expanded the role of the oximation reaction by developing new aminooxy containing reagents for applications in synthesis and quantitative high throughput GC-MS analysis. After graduating in 2013, Seb became a postdoctoral associate at Duke University (North Carolina) working with Jennifer L. Roizen. There, he developed new Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling methodologies for the selective functionalization of ortho-halopyridines. In August 2016, Seb started his independent career at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology. Seb became an Associate Professor in August 2023 and IUPUI changed names to Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI).
Selected Awards, Recognitions, & Grants:
• NSF Career Award (2023); NIH MIRA R-35 (2023); NIH R-21 (2019)
• IU Indianapolis Jags Students Athletes "Favorite Professor" (2025, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2017)
• IUPUI School of Science Pre-Tenure Research Award (2023)
• Preparing Future Faculty Program Fellow, Duke University (2015)
• The John Richard Binford Memorial Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership, University of Louisville (2013)
• Arno Spatola Endowment Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Louisville (2013)
