Ryan Gilmour

Biography

I was born in Ayrshire, Scotland and studied chemistry at the University of St Andrews working with Prof. David O´Hagan. Upon completion of my Masters degree, I moved to the University of Cambridge to complete a PhD in total synthesis under the direction of Prof. Andrew B. Holmes.

Following post-doctoral research fellowships at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (with Prof. Alois Fürstner) and the ETH Zürich (with Prof. Peter H. Seeberger), I was appointed as the Alfred-Werner-Assistant-Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry at the ETH. In 2013 I joined the WWU Münster where I currently hold the Chair of Organic Chemistry & CiMIC Professorship of Chemical Biology.

My group´s research interests are based on translating fundamental principles of structure and reactivity to applications in catalysis and biomedicine.

Physical organic chemistry is at the core of our entire research programme and drives innovation. We have strong interests in main group catalysis strategies to enable selective fluorination, the development of glycostructures for applications in chemical biology and medicine, and selective energy transfer photocatalysis.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and joined Chemical Science as an Associate Editor in August 2023.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Chemical Science