Celebrated organic chemist receives honorary doctorate
Professor Lloyd-Jones (right)was delighted to receive the honorary award of Honorary Doctorate of the University from the University of Huddersfield, where he studied for his first degree under Huddersfield’s Professor Mike Page (left).
Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:55:00 BST
Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, a Huddersfield alumnus, returns to receive his award
Guy Lloyd-Jones is regarded as one of the UK’s leading organic chemists and is currently the incumbent of the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh.
Professor Lloyd-Jones was delighted to receive the honorary award of Honorary Doctorate of the University from the University of Huddersfield, where he studied for his first degree under Huddersfield’s Professor Mike Page.
Guy Lloyd-Jones
In this video Guy talks about his time at Huddersfield and how it and his former tutor, Mike Page, impacted on his career.
Guy Lloyd-Jones studied Applied Chemistry at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Huddersfield, with a one-year placement at ICI Pharmaceuticals. He conducted his final-year project with the University of Huddersfield’s Professor Mike Page, then head of the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. Mike Page had a profound influence on Guy, instilling in him a deep appreciation of the power of physical-organic chemistry.
After graduating, and guided by Professor Page, Guy moved to Oxford University to study under John Brown FRS. On obtaining his DPhil in 1992, he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to work with Andreas Pfaltz, and in 1996 returned to the UK, to a lectureship at the University of Bristol. Here he began to build a highly productive research team that specialises in organic and organometallic stereochemistry and mechanism. He was promoted to Professor in 2003, Head of Organic and Biological Chemistry in 2012, and in 2013 appointed to The Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at Edinburgh University; in the same year was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
His contributions to organic chemistry have been widely recognised, including the following awards: The Royal Society of Chemistry Hickinbottom Fellowship (2000); Corday Morgan Medal (2003); Reaction Mechanisms Prize (2007); and Physical Organic Award (2013); the AstraZeneca Award (2003), the Liebig Lectureship of the German Chemical Society (2003); The Derome Lectureship (Oxford, 2014); The Frost Lectureship (Queen’s, Canada, 2014); The Novartis Lectureship (Illinois, 2013); The Heathcock Lectureship (Berkeley, 2012); The Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectureship, (Princeton, 2011); the Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship (MIT, 2009); a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2008-2013); and the Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GSK, Syngenta Process Chemistry Prize (2010).
In addition to academic research, Professor Lloyd-Jones serves as a consultant to a number of companies in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and organic materials sectors.
