Edward Alexander Anderson, known as Ed Anderson, is an

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based at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. 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

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degree in chemistry in 1997, having completed his research project on gold

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s under the supervision of

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. Between 1997 and 2001, he completed a doctorate at

Gonville and Caius College Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

in the

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under the supervision of Andrew Holmes. His research focused on the applications and synthesis of medium-ring

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s and

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s. 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 Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. In 1894, the col ...

, 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."Professor Edward Anderson"
''Jesus College''. Retrieved 21 January 2017. In 2016, the university awarded him with the title Professor of Organic Chemistry. In 2020, he was awarded the Bader Award by the

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. 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

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.""Professor Ed Anderson"
''University of Oxford Department of Chemistry''. Retrieved 21 January 2017. Anderson is married to Emma, a virologist at the

University of Warwick , mottoeng = Mind moves matter , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.0 million (2021) , budget = £698.2 million (2020� ...

, and they have two children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Ed (chemist) Organic chemists Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British chemists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of Homerton College, Cambridge Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford