Download: Dean's CV (pdf)
Dean was born in 1971 in Tercelra, Azores, Portugal, but soon moved to Canada. While at the University of Toronto, he majored in Chemistry and Biochemistry and went on to obtain a M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry. He then pursued his Ph.D. with Barry Trost at Stanford and a post-doctoral appointment with Robert Grubbs at Caltech. Dean is currently the Chevron Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.