School of Chemistry (F11), University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Email:philip.gale@sydney.edu.au 

Web:www.supramolecularchemistry.net

Biography

Philip A. Gale is Professor of Chemistry and Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney.  He received his DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 1995 and then moved as a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Texas at Austin.  He returned to Oxford in 1997 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, moving to a lectureship at the University of Southampton in 1999 where he became Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry in 2007.  From 2010 to 2016 he served as Head of Chemistry at Southampton. He received a DSc degree from the University of Oxford in 2014 and moved to the University of Sydney in 2017. His research focuses on the supramolecular chemistry of anions and has been recognised by a number of awards including the 2004 RSC Bob Hay Lectureship, the 2005 RSC Corday Morgan medal and prize, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013), the 2014 RSC Supramolecular Chemistry Award and the 2018 International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry.