David Leigh#
| Membership Number: | 3996 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.catenane.net |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014- Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK
- 2012 - 2013 Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK
- 2001 - 2012 Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1998 - 2001 Chair of Synthetic Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
- 1996 - 1998 Readership in Organic Chemistry, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK
- 1989 - 1996 Lectureship in Organic Chemistry, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK
- 1987 - 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 1984 - 1987 PhD student, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1981 - 1984 BSc (Special Honours) student, University of Sheffield, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Synthetic molecular machines
- Synthetic molecular knots and links
- Supramolecular chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Pedler Award
- 2014 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2013 Royal Society Bakerian Prize Lecture & Medal
- 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (London)
- 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry Merck Award for Organic Chemistry
- 2008 ERC Advanced Grant (inaugural call)
- 2007 EU Descartes Prize for Research
- 2007 Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology
- 2007 HRH Prince Philip Chancellor’s Award for Research
- 2007 Royal Society of Chemistry-Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSC-RSEQ) Prize for Chemistry
- 2007 International Izatt-Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry
- 2005 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Nanotechnology
- 2005 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2005 Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2005-10 EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship
- 2005 Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Award for Chemistry
- 2004 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Interdisciplinary Research
- 2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Supramolecular Chemistry
