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Background, Education and Training
Grew up in Galloway area of South West Scotland
Douglas Ewart High School, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, 1969-1975
B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry First Class, University of Edinburgh, 1975-1979
Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, 1979-1982 with Dr Ian Gosney and Professor J.I.G. Cadogan "The preparation and pyrolysis of some cyclic sulphones"
Postdoctoral: Fulbright Scholarship, Colorado State University, 1982-1984 with Professor A.I. Meyers "Asymmetric synthesis using chiral bicyclic lactams" and "Asymmetric total synthesis of (-)-steganone by oxazoline mediated biaryl coupling"
Previous Roles
Royal Society Warren Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, 1984-1989
School of Chemistry Safety Coordinator, 1985-2003
Tayside Local Section, RSC, Committee Member 1986-90, Vice-Chairman 1990-91, Chairman 1991-94
Sabbatical, University of Texas at Austin with Professor A.H. Cowley, 1994
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry 1989-1997
Elected to International Advisory Committee, International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry 1997-99
Teaching Fellowship, University of Hong Kong, Jan-Feb 1999
Visiting Professor, Kuwait University, Jan-Feb 2002
Chairman, University Health and Safety Committee, 2001-2003
Associate Editor, Current Organic Synthesis, 2003-09
Volume Editor, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, 3rd Edn. Volume 8, published 2008 (934p)
Visiting Professor, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, August 2012
Director of Teaching, School of Chemistry Feb 2004-Jan 2014
Examinations Officer, School of Chemistry, Feb 2014-Aug 2016
Tayside Local Section, RSC, Chairman 2011-2017
Elected to International Advisory Committee, International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2011-2017Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry 1997-2018
School of Chemistry Safety Coordinator, 2016-2021
Volume Editor, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, 4th Edn., Volume 4, published 2021 (1145p)
Reader in Organic Chemistry 2018-2024
Current Roles
University Chemical Hazards Adviser since 1990
Volume Editor, Science of Synthesis Updates, Volume 13 since 2010
Elected Publicity Chair, International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry since 2018
Professor of Organic Chemistry since 2024
Joint Editor, Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Vol 34 (2022)-
Editorial Board Member, Molbank, 2018-
Editor in Chief, Journal of Sulfur Chemistry since Jan 2024