Daniel Morton's RASEI Engagement

Creative and curious organic chemist with over seven years’ experience managing operations for multi-million-dollar scientific research collaboratives and over twelve years of hands-on research. I have developed an informed, versatile, and responsible approach to problem solving that combines technical knowledge and project management insight with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 

Before joining the RASEI team in 2022 as the Director of Communications, Dan was the technical project manager for the Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet (G2RT) Program, between 2019 - 2021. Based out of Georgia Tech, this international program brought together eight international teams, including scientists, engineers, industrial designers and field testing crews. The goal was to bring build and test a fleet of prototype toilets capable of effective treatment of human waste using minimal electrical and water inputs and completely disconnected from sewer infrastructure.

Before joining G2RT Dan was the Managing Director of the Center for C–H Functionalization, an NSF-funded Center for Chemical Innovation, between 2013 - 2019. Based at Emory University, the CCHF included 24 research groups from across the United States, who worked together to develop new C–H functionalization methodologies, a technology that significantly reduces the time, energy and waste involved in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals.

Before joining the CCHF Dan was a Senior Research Scientist at Dr Reddy's Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge UK, which he joined in 2011, after two postdoctoral stints at Emory University (2008 - 2011) and the University of Leeds (2004 - 2008). Dan completed his PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at the University of East Anglia in 2004.