Professor Alan Spivey, Imperial College, UK

Alan Spivey received his BSc in Chemistry in 1988 from the University of Nottingham, UK, and his DPhil in 1991 from the University of Oxford under the guidance of Prof.Sir Jack Baldwin.

After post-doctoral work at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, with the late Prof. Wolfgang Oppolzer, and at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Sir Alan Battersby, he moved to a lectureship at the University of Sheffield in 1996. He moved to his current position as a reader at Imperial College London in 2003.

Research in his group is focused on the development of new catalysts for asymmetric acylation, new linkers for solid phase organic synthesis, chemical aspects of signal transduction, and total synthesis of bioactive natural products.