Philip Gale

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Phil Gale was born in Liverpool. He graduated with a BA (Hons.) in chemistry from Wadham College, Oxford in 1992 and a DPhil from Linacre College, Oxford in 1995. He then took up a Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin working in Professor Jonathan L. Sessler's research group. In 1997 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which he took up at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford moving to the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton in September 1999 as Royal Society URF and Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2005 and to a Personal Chair in Chemistry in 2007. His interests in supramolecular chemistry are focused on anionic species and specifically on synthetic anion receptor chemistry and the roles anions can play in self-assembly and in crystal engineering. He was awarded a 2004 Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Young Investigator Award and the 2004 Bob Hay lectureship by the RSC UK Macrocycles and Supramolecular Chemistry Group. Most recently he was the recipient of a 2005 RSC Corday-Morgan medal and prize. Phil is the co-editor (with Jonathan Sessler) of the journal Supramolecular Chemistry, a commissioning editor for the RSC's Chemical Society Reviews and a member of the international editorial advisory boards of Coordination Chemistry Reviews, the Encyclopaedia of Supramolecular Chemistry, Chemistry World and Chemical Communications. He is a member of the scientific committee of the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC), is the secretary and treasurer of the RSC Macrocycles and Supramoelcular Chemistry Group and is currently serving as chair of the Mid-Southern Counties local section of the RSC.