David Leigh

David Leigh obtained his PhD in supramolecular organic chemistry with Sir J Fraser Stoddart at the University of Sheffield in 1987. After postdoctoral research with carbohydrate chemist David Bundle at the NRC of Canada in Ottawa, David returned to the UK as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. In 1998 he moved to the University of Warwick and in 2001 he moved again to take up the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Leigh's research interests include the development of new methods for the synthesis of catenanes and rotaxanes and experimental synthetic molecular machine design. He has won a number of major international awards including the 2007 Izatt-Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry and the 2007 Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology. He has been a member of the�OBC editorial board since 2007.