Adding constraints to understand life’s chemical origins

An image showing Matthew Powner

Source: © Michael Crawford/Royal Society of Chemistry

Matt Powner wants to know if there are chemical rules that govern why certain synthetic strategies are embedded in biology 

Matt Powner is always searching for his next project. ‘When you don’t know if things are going to work, that’s super exciting,’ he says. ‘That’s what really motivates me to do science.’