Robert Phipps

Robert received his MSci in Chemistry from Imperial College London in 2006. He moved to the University of Cambridge to complete his PhD (2010) with Prof. Matthew Gaunt on the development of new copper-catalysed arylation reactions. In 2011, he moved to the Unviversity of California, Berkeley on a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with Prof. F. Dean Toste in the area of asymmetric fluorination using chiral phosphoric acid catalysts. In 2013 he returned to Cambridge for the return year of his Marie Curie Fellowship before taking up a position as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in October 2014. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2017 (NonCovRegioSiteCat) and was a recipient of a RSC Harrison Meldola Memorial Prize in 2019. He was appointed as an Associate Professor at Cambridge in October 2021 and made Professor of Organic Chemistry in October 2022.