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Ryan Keller

Director, Quality Assurance

Dr. William Setzer

Will Setzer was born in Los Angeles, California. He started his academic career at the University of Alabama in Huntsville as assistant professor of organic chemistry in 1985. He served as professor and chair of the Chemistry department until his retirement in 2015.

Though Will has always had a casual interest in plants, ethnobotany, and herbal medicines, his research in natural products started in 1990 after a trip to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica. Along with Costa Rica, Will’s bioprospecting trips have taken him and his students to north Queensland, Australia, and the Bahamas, and he’s formed several fruitful collaborations with groups in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, the Middle East, and South Africa. His research interests are in natural products, essential oils, chemical ecology, and molecular modeling.

Will received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, in 1973, and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1981 under the direction of Professor Richard S. Glass. He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Wesley G. Bentrude at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, with Dr. Paul von Ragué Schleyer.