Professor Andy Lawrence
EaStCHEM School of Chemistry
University of Edinburgh
Joseph Black Building
David Brewster Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3FJ, U.K.
Tel: 0131 650 4831
E-mail: a.lawrence@ed.ac.uk
2020 – present Professor, Chair of Organic Synthesis, University of Edinburgh
2017 – 2020 Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
2013 – 2017 Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
2012 – 2013 ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
2010 – 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University (M. S. Sherburn)
2006 – 2010 DPhil, University of Oxford (J. E. Baldwin, R. M. Adlington)
2002 – 2006 MChem, University of Oxford (St. John’s College)
Biography
Andy was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, where he attended local state schools (GCSEs at Hungerhill Comprehensive School and A-Levels at Danum Technology College). He was a first-generation student and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, St John’s College (2002–2006, MChem, Hons 1st Class) and subsequently obtained a DPhil degree in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Sir Jack Baldwin FRS and Prof. Rob Adlington. Andy then moved to Australia to spend two years (2010–2011) as a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Mick Sherburn at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. In 2012, Andy began an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship at the ANU before moving back to the UK in 2013 for an academic position at the University of Edinburgh. He is now full Professor (Chair of Organic Synthesis) at the University of Edinburgh.
Awards, Prizes, Funding
2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK – Chemistry Finalist
2021 Leverhulme Trust Research Grant
2020 EPSRC New Horizons Grant
2018 BMOS-RSC Young Investigator Distinction Award
2017 ERC Starting Grant
2017 RSC Hickinbottom Award
2016 EPSRC First grant
2016 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2015 Royal Society – Research Grant
2014 Marie Curie Actions – Career Integration Grant
2014 Junior Scientists’ Fellowship of the 49th Bürgenstock Conference
2014 Australian Research Council – Discovery Project
2012 Australian Research Council – DECRA Fellowship
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