Roman G. Belli
Assistant Professor, University of Winnipeg (2025 - Present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2020 - 2024)
PhD, University of Victoria (2019)
BSc, University of Toronto - St. George (2014)
Roman Belli grew up in Toronto, ON, and developed a passion for Chemistry early on in high school. He attended the University of Toronto - St. George and received his BSc in Chemistry in 2014. During his undergraduate degree he conducted research via the Inorganic Chemsitry Exchange with Professor Lisa Rosenberg at the University of Victoria (UVic). He received his PhD from UVic in 2019 where he researched catalyst design for alkene hydrophosphination. His postdoctoral work (2020-2024) was conducted at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with Professor Courtney Roberts where he studied early transition metal catalysis and N-heterocyclic aryne chemistry. He started at the University of Winnipeg as an Assistant Professor January 2025.
Research Group Summer 2026
Prof. Roman Belli
Wayne Major (Indigenous Summer Scholar Program)
Oluwatofunmi Olaleye (NSERC USRA)
Tanveer Kaur (Directed Studies)
Sahilpreet Singh (Directed Studies)