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Edward Alexander Anderson, known as Ed Anderson, is an organic chemist based at the University of Oxford. In 2016, the university awarded him the title of Professor of Organic Chemistry.

Life

Ed Anderson attended Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated from the university with Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry in 1997, having completed his research project on gold nanoparticles under the supervision of Harry Anderson. Between 1997 and 2001, he completed a doctorate at Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Andrew Holmes. His research focused on the applications and synthesis of medium-ring lactones and ethers. He took up a two-year post-doctoral research position assisting Erik J. Sorensen at The Scripps Research Institute and helped to synthesise furanosteriod viridin. In 2003, he was appointed a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge, and then took up an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at Oxford in 2007, moving over to Jesus College two years later as a lecturer, and subsequently a fellow and tutor. In 2016, the university awarded him with the title Professor of Organic Chemistry. In 2020, he was awarded the Bader Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

According to his Oxford University profile, Anderson's research has "a particular focus on the total synthesis of biologically active molecules, and the development of new reactions including cascade processes ... Within the theme of reaction development, we have particular interests in the use of metal-mediated reactions to rapidly construct complex functional molecules, and in new applications of organosilicon chemistry."

Anderson is married to Emma, a virologist at the University of Warwick, and they have two children.

References

1. ^ "Ed Anderson". The Anderson Research Group. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 3 September 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
2. ^ "Professor Edward Anderson", Jesus College. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
3. "Recognition of Distinction: Successful Applicants 2016" Archived 26 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The University of Oxford Gazette, no. 5143, vol. 147, 29 September 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
4. "Professor Edward Anderson | Bader Award winner 2020". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
5. "Professor Ed Anderson", University of Oxford Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

• British organic chemists
• Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
• Living people
• Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
• Fellows of Homerton College, Cambridge
• Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
• 1991 births