Prof. Dr. Ryan Gilmour

Laboratorium f. Organische Chemie
HCI H 311
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10
8093 Zürich
Phone: +41 44 632 79 34
E-Mail: ryan.gilmour@org.chem.ethz.ch

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Ryan Gilmour has been an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich since the 1st August 2008.

Professor Gilmour was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1980. He received a Masters degree (1st class) in “Chemistry with Advanced Chemistry” from the University of St Andrews in 2002 where he worked with Professor David O’Hagan and was awarded the Organon Prize for Bioorganic Chemistry. He then moved to the University of Cambridge to complete a Ph.D. with Professor Andrew B. Holmes FRS working on marine natural product medium ring ether synthesis. Following a one year post-doctoral stay with Professor Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung working on marine polyketide synthesis, he moved to the ETH Zurich to join Professor Peter H. Seeberger’s group. In December 2007 he was awarded the Alfred-Werner-Assistant-Professorship and in 2008 the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology appointed him as Assistant Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry at the ETH Zurich.
Professional
2008 – present     Alfred Werner Assistant Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.
Education
2007 – 2008     Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Research Advisor: Professor Dr Peter H. Seeberger.
2006 – 2007     Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Research Advisor: Professor Dr Alois Fürstner.
2002 – 2006     University Chemical Laboratory and Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. Research advisor: Professor Dr Andrew B. Holmes FRS.
1998 – 2002     School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK.
M.Chem. (Hons) First Class. Masters degree in “Chemistry with Advanced Chemistry”
Masters Advisor: Professor Dr David O’Hagan. This course included a research placement with Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel, Switzerland. Research Advisor: Dr André D. Stoller.
Awards and Honours

    * Assistant Professorship in Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich (Elected July 2008)
    * Alfred Werner Assistant Professorship (Awarded December 2007)
    * Organon Prize for the Best Final Year Research Project in Biological Chemistry (Awarded July 2002)
    * BP Amoco Poster Prize (Awarded December 2000)
    * CIBA Scholarship for Organic Chemistry (Awarded June 2000)

Professional Membership
2007 – present     Member of the Swiss Chemical Society
2006 – present     Full Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)
2002 – 2005     Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (AMRSC)
1998 – 2002     Student Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry