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Professor Varinder Kumar Aggarwal |
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School of Chemistry |
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| Cantock's Close | |
| Bristol BS8 1TS | |
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Tel: + 44 (0)117 954 6315 |
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Fax: + 44 (0)117 929 8611 |
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V.Aggarwal@Bristol.ac.uk |
| Date of Birth | 1 January 1961 |
| Place of Birth | Kalianpur, India |
| Nationality | British |
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ACADEMIC
RECORD
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| Undergraduate |
Pembroke College, Cambridge 1980 - 1983. B.A. (Hons), Natural Sciences (Chemistry), First Class. |
| Postgraduate |
Pembroke
College, Cambridge 1983 - 1986.
Ph.D in Organic Chemistry entitled 'Stereocontrolled
Synthesis with Phenylthio Migration'. Supervisor: Dr. Stuart Warren |
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CURRENT
APPOINTMENT
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| University of Bristol | Professor in Synthetic Chemistry, Bristol University (since September 2000) |
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PREVIOUS
APPOINTMENTS
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| Professor in Chemistry | Sheffield University (October 1997 - September 2000) |
| Reader in Chemistry | Sheffield University (1995 - 1997) |
| Lecturer in Chemistry | Sheffield University (1991 - 1995) |
| Lecturer in Chemistry | Bath University (1988 - 1991) |
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Professor Gilbert Stork |
Columbia University, New York (1986 - 1988) |
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MEMBERSHIP
OF SOCIETIES
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| Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Member of the American Chemical Society |
| Member of the Society of Chemical Industries |
| Member of EPSRC College (1998 - ) |
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MEMBERSHIP OF
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES
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| Member of International Committee on Organic Chemistry of Sulfur (1999 - ) |
| Member of International Committee on Heteroatom Chemistry (2002 - ) |
| Editorial Board of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (2002 - 2005) |
| International Advisory Board of Chem. Comm. (2005 - ) |
| International Advisory Board of Chemistry, an Asian Journal (2006 - ) |
| Member of Editorial Board of Topics in Stereochemistry (2006 - ) |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| Development of new catalytic processes for asymmetric synthesis. The taming of reactive intermediates (carbenes, carbenoids, radicals, radical cations) and their use and subsequent applications in catalysis and synthesis. The development of new methodology and its applications in synthesis. Total synthesis of biologically important targets. |
AWARDS
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| Harkness Fellowship (1986 - 1988) |
| Pfizer Academic Award (1996) |
| Glaxo Wellcome Academic Award (1996) |
| Zeneca Academic Award (1996) |
| RSC Hickinbottom Fellowship (1997) |
| Nuffield Foundation Fellow (1997 - 1998) |
| Pfizer Academic Award (1998) |
| RSC Corday Morgan Prize and Medal (1999) |
| Novartis Lecturship 1999 / 2000 |
| Liebigs Lecturship (Germany), 1999 / 2000 (inaugural) |
| RSC Green Chemistry Award 2003 |
| Zeneca Senior Academic Award 2004 |
| RSC Reaction Mechanism Award 2004 |
| Merck Frosst Lecturer 2005 |
| Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award 2006 - 2011 |
| RSC/GdCh-Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship, 2007 (inaugural) |
| RSC Tilden Lecturer awarded 2007 (for 20080/09 academic year) |
| EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship (2007 - 2012) |
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VISITING
PROFESSORSHIPS / SPECIAL INVITED LECTURES
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| Visiting Professor at Florence University (November, 1995) |
| Guest Lecturer at Munster University, Germany, (January, 1996) |
| Intercantonal Convention Lecturer, Switzerland (March, 1996) |
| RSC Visiting Lecturer in Ireland (February / March 1997) |
| Foreign Guest at Summer School, Lake Garda, Italy (June 1997) |
| Swiss Guest Lectureship, Geneva/Basle, 2002 |
| Student Speaker at Clausthal, Germany, 2002 - 2003 |
| Student Speaker at Edmonton, Canada, 2002 - 2003 |
| Leo Pharmaceuticals Lecturer, Copenhagen, 2003 |
| Student Speaker at Leipzig, Germany, 2004 |
| Student Speaker at Aachen (Nicloaus Lecturer), Germany, 2005 |
| Plenary lectures at 3 - 4 international conferences per year for the last 8 years |
