Douglas Philp (born 31 December 1967) is a Scottish chemist who is currently Professor in Chemistry at the

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. He was previously a Reader in Physical Organic Chemistry at the

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. Philp graduated from the

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with a BSc in Chemistry in 1989 and completed his PhD in 1992 at the

with a thesis entitled ''Self-Assembly in Chemical Systems''. He was awarded the Saltire Society Scottish Science Award in 2005 and the

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in 2009. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021. Philp has an

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