Professor David A. Leigh FRSC FRSE
Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry & EPSRC Senior Research Fellow
School of Chemistry
University of Edinburgh
The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
EDINBURGH
EH9 3JJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 131 650 4721 (Secretary: +44 131 650 4730)
Fax: +44 131 650 6453
David.Leigh@ed.ac.uk
B.Sc. (1984); Ph. D. (1987) University of Sheffield
1987-89 Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Research Council of
Canada (Ottawa)
1989-95 Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
1996-98 Reader in Organic Chemistry, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
1998-2001 Chair of Synthetic Chemistry, University of Warwick
1998-2003 EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
2001- Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Supramolecular Chemistry
2004 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2004 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award
2005 Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Award for Chemistry
2005 Swiss Chemical Society Troisième Conferencier in Chemistry
2005 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy of Science & Letters
2005 Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award
2005-10 EPSRC Senior Research Fellow
2005 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Nanotechnology
2007 International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry
2007 Royal Society of Chemistry-Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSC-RSEQ) Prize for Chemistry
2007 Chancellor's Award for Research
2007 Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology
2007 Descartes Prize for Research
2008 ERC Advanced Grant (inaugural call)
Member of the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellow of the Royal
Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Full Member of the Edinburgh Magic Circle.
