Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
Office: 2RC048
Tel: 204-786-9730
Fax: 204-774-2401
j.ritch@uwinnipeg.ca
Employment
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, The University of Winnipeg
2015 – present
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, The University of Winnipeg
2011 – 2015
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge
2009-2011
Education
Ph.D. – Inorganic Chemistry
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
2005 – 2009
Supervisor: Prof. Tristram Chivers
Ph.D. Thesis: “Tellurium-Containing Imidodiphosphinate Ligands – Fundamental Chemistry and Applications to Semiconducting Metal Tellurides”
Visiting Ph.D. Student (Supervisor: Prof. Paul O’Brien)
The School of Chemistry and Materials Science Centre, The University of Manchester, UK
2007
B.Sc. (First Class Honours) – Chemistry
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
2001 – 2005
Honours Project Supervisor: Prof. Tristram Chivers
Honours Thesis: “Single Source Precursors to Group 12 Metal Tellurides and an Unusual Ditelluride”
Professional Service
Member, Editorial Board for Transition Metal Chemistry (a Springer Nature journal)
2017 – present