Dr Alison Hulme, University of Edinburgh
Dr Alison Hulme received her BA in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) from the University of Cambridge in 1989, and remained there to complete her PhD under the guidance of Prof. I. Paterson in 1992. From 1993-94 she was an SERC-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. A. I. Meyers at Colorado State University, USA.
She returned to the UK in 1994, where she briefly held the Heartha-Ayrton Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, before appointment to a lectureship at the University of Edinburgh in 1995.
She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004. Her research interests cover wide-ranging aspects of natural products chemistry, from chemical biology applications of tagging bioactive natural product libraries (fluorescent, affinity, spin-labelling) to the development of new asymmetric methodology for complex total syntheses, and even encompass the use of natural product dyestuffs in historic textiles.
