Professor
His research interests include Molecular Recognition, Molecular Assemblies, and Sensor Design. He has given invited Lectures in the UK, Europe, the USA and Japan.
Career
Currently a Professor at the University of Bath. In 1986 he received his B.Sc. from the University of East Anglia after returning from a one year exchange with the University of Massachusetts.
Moving to the University of Victoria, British Columbia Canada in 1986 to carry out his postgraduate studies. Victoria is a very beautiful city on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. He received his Ph. D from the University of Victoria under the supervision of Thomas M. Fyles on Structure-Activity Studies of Ion Channel Mimics in 1991.
After finishing his PhD, he moved to Japan in 1991 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow where he worked at the Chemirecognics Project in Kurume, Kyushu, Japan from 1992-95 with Seiji Shinkai, on the synthesis of boronic acids for saccharide recognition. Kyushu is the third largest Island in the Japanese archipelago.
He returned to the UK and the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham as a Royal Society Research Fellow in 1995.
In September 2000 he took up his current position as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry and Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Bath, Department of Chemistry.
