The Perez Group

Lark J. Perez

2022-current Professor, Rowan University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

2017-2022 Associate Professor, Rowan University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

2012-2017 Assistant Professor, Rowan University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

2009-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2003–2008 Ph.D. Yale University, New Haven, CT
1998–2002 B.S. Long Island University, Southampton, NY

Lark was born and raised in Southampton, New York. He attended Long Island University where, during an internship with Prof. D. John Faulkner at the Scripps Institutution of Oceanography he developed a passion for the study of organic chemistry and graduated with honors in 2002. The following year, Lark enrolled in graduate studies at Yale University and joined the research group of Prof. Glenn C. Micalizio. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 2008 with a research focus on the development of new methods of convergent carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. For his postdoctoral studies, Lark worked in the area of chemical biology in the laboratories of Prof. Martin F. Semmelhack and Prof. Bonnie L. Bassler exploring cellular signaling events related to bacterial pathogenesis. In 2012 he began his independant career at Rowan University with a focus on teaching and research in the area of organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, natural products and chemical signaling. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Full Professor in 2022.