Researcher biography

Profile

  • BSc, University of Melbourne, 1964
  • MSc, University of Melbourne, 1967
  • PhD, University College London, 1971
  • MA (1973); ScD (1997) University of Cambridge
  • Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH-Zürich, 1971 - 72
  • University Demonstrator (Assistant Lecturer), University of Cambridge, 1972 - 1977
  • University Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 1977 - 1994
  • Reader in Organic and Polymer Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 1995 - 1998
  • Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 1998 - 2004
  • Director, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge, 1994 – 2004
  • Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, Imperial College (on leave), 2004 - 2009
  • ARC Federation and VESKI Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2004 - 2009
  • FRS (2000), AM (2004), FAA & FTSE (2006)

Research interests

Electroactive organic and polymeric materials

  • Synthesis
  • Solar cells
  • Light emitting devices

Biological chemistry

  • Intracellular signalling
  • Phosphatidyl inositol polyphosphates
  • Nicotinic acetyl choline receptor

Natural product synthesis

  • Histrionicotoxins
  • Medium ring ethers