Dr. Sue Gibson

Biography

Sue Gibson was educated at Darwen Vale High School in Lancashire and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, obtaining her D.Phil. at Oxford for her work on 'Transition metal promoted oxidation reduction reactions'. She spent a year at ETH Zürich supported by a Royal Society Research Fellowship and began her independent research career focused on transition metal chemistry applications in organic synthesis at the University of Warwick in 1985, moving her research group to Imperial College in 1990. After a brief hiatus from Imperial College, she occupied the Daniell Chair of Chemistry at King's College London from 1998 to 2003 and enjoyed a three-year parental leave from 2010 to 2013. Sue is the main author of 160 publications and her textbook has been translated into French and German. She has traveled extensively to present her work and her group has graduated 42 Ph.D. students and hosted 15 post-doctoral researchers. Her work has garnered awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry, including the Rosalind Franklin Award in 2003. From 2007 to 2010, she served as President of the Organic Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry and chaired the RSC's Awards Committee from 2011 to 2014. She has been a member of numerous panels, including the past EPSRC Council and the Royal Society's Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship Panel, and has acted as an external examiner for undergraduate chemistry courses at universities such as Strathclyde, Durham, Oxford, and York. In 2013, she was awarded an OBE for her services to chemistry and science education. In November 2013, Sue assumed the role of Director of the Graduate School at Imperial College.

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