Academic History
Nov 2015-: Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Warwick, Department of Chemistry.
Nov 2010-Oct 2015: Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Warwick, Department of Chemistry.
Nov 2008- Sept 2010: Herchel-Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry (in the laboratories of Prof. Peter F. Leadlay).
Nov 2006- Oct 2008: Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry (in the laboratories of Dr Jonathan B. Spencer).
May 2005- Sept 2006: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry (under the supervision of Dr Jonathan B. Spencer).
May-Dec 2004: Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin, Department of Chemistry and of Veterinary Biochemistry (under the supervision of Prof Paul V. Murphy).
Jan 2001-Apr 2004: PhD in Chemistry, University College Dublin, Ireland (supervisor: Prof Paul V. Murphy)
Oct 1994–Sept 2000: Laurea (Master Degree) in Chemistry. Final result: 110/110 with distinction. Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy. Three months (Sept-Dec.1998) spent at University College Dublin, Ireland, as part of the Erasmus research programme.
Awards
2024 RSC Long Service Award (for outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group)
2008 RSC meeting ‘The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products IV’ (Bristol), Best Lecture Prize
2008 Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006 Marie-Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004 Royal Irish Academy Prize for Young Chemists 2004 (most outstanding Irish Ph.D. thesis in chemical sciences)
2003 BOC Gases Postgraduate Research Bursary
2002 Irish Research Council for Science and Technology Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Conference presentations and organisation (selected):
2023 Invited plenary speaker, European Symposium of Bioorganic Chemistry (ESBOC) 2023, Gregynog (May)
2022 Co-organiser of RSC ‘Chemical Biology Meets Drug Discovery 2022’ Symposium, Francis Crick Institute, London (Sept)
2021 Invited plenary speaker, 4th European Conference on Natural Products (virtual, Sept)
2019 Invited keynote lecture, 7th Brazilian Conference on Natural Products, Rio de Janeiro (Nov)
2019 Invited lecture, 5th Warwick-Wellcome Quantitative Biomedicine Symposium, Warwick (July)
2018 Contributed lecture, final COST CM1407 meeting, La Laguna, Tenerife (Dec)
2018 Chair and Organiser of the ‘RSC Chemical Biology Meets Drug Discovery 2018’ Symposium, GSK-Stevenage, Stevenage (Sept)
2017 Invited lecture, 2nd Joint NSCF-RSC Chemical Biology Symposium, London (Dec)
2017 Invited lecture, 2nd International Summer School of Natural Products, Naples (July)
2017 Invited lecture, European Workshop on Natural Product Biosynthesis, Gif Sur Yvette, Paris (June)
2017 Contributed lecture, Directing Biosynthesis V, Warwick (March)
2017 Contributed lecture, 3rd COST CM1407 meeting, Krakow (March)
2016 Contributed lecture, NPRONET community meeting, Manchester (May)
2015 Contributed lecture, 1st COST CM1407 meeting, Rome (Oct)
2015 Contributed lecture, 2nd European Conference on Natural Products, Frankfurt (Sept)
2014 Invited lecture, 17th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes, Turkey (Oct)
2014 RSC Chemical Biology PG Symposium organiser, Warwick (April)
2013 Invited lecture, TFOC- Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium, Kloster on Seeon (August)
2013 Contributed lecture, ISACS11- Challenges in Chemical Biology, MIT, Boston (July)
2012 Contributed lecture, Directing Biosynthesis III, Nottingham (Sept)
2012 Contributed lecture, ESBOC 2012- The Chemistry and Biology of Antibiotics, Gregynog, Wales (May)
2011 Contributed lecture, ISACS5- Challenges in Chemical Biology, Manchester (July)
2010 Contributed lecture, EMBO Chemical Biology, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Sept)
2010 Contributed lecture, Trends in Enzymology, Ascona, Switzerland (June)