Bader Award 2009 winner

Douglas Philp
University of St Andrews

Awarded for his creative research into supramolecular chemistry and the design of molecular self-replication systems.

About the winner

Douglas Philp was born on the last day of 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland. After completing his early education in the West of Scotland, he moved to the University of Aberdeen in 1985 where he completed a BSc Honours Degree in Chemistry in 1989.

He then spent three years in the laboratory of Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart FRS, firstly at the University of Sheffield and then subsequently at the University of Birmingham, where he completed his PhD in 1992, with a thesis entitled Self-Assembly in Chemical Systems.

He was a Royal Society European Science Exchange Programme Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH, Zürich in the laboratories of Professor François Diederich, before returning to the University of Birmingham in 1994 to take up a post first as Lecturer, and finally as Reader, in Physical Organic Chemistry.

In September 2000, he moved to his current position in the Centre for Biomolecular Sciences at the University of St Andrews. 

His current research interests focus on the development of self-assembling and self-replicating structures, the design and implementation of complex systems based on simple chemical entities and the application of computational methods to problem solving in chemistry.