Rate My Professor Nick Green

Green's achievements include the 2024 Outstanding Early-Career Researcher award and Best Research Paper Academic Staff (fundamental) from the University of Otago Division of Sciences. He secured a $2 million Human Frontier Science Program grant for a three-year international collaboration investigating the genomics, biosynthesis, physiology, and chemical synthesis of fish ichthyotoxins with researchers from Okayama University and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Notable publications encompass 'Prebiotic Synthesis of N-Formylaminonitriles and Derivatives in Formamide' in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023), 'Total synthesis of Brevianamide S' in Organic Letters (2025), and 'Recent advances in gold and zinc oxide nanoparticles: Antibiofilm action, mechanisms beyond ROS generation, and in vivo efficacy' in Microbiological Research (2026). His group contributes to conference proceedings on spiroaspertrione synthesis, thiadiazoles, and lipid-nucleotide conjugates. Green teaches courses such as CHEM202 Organic Chemistry 1, CHEM302 Organic Chemistry 2, and CHEM305 Biological and Medicinal Chemistry 2, with expertise in organic and medicinal chemistry, nucleic acids, and origin of life studies.