Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS

Biography and career highlights for Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones

Guy Lloyd-Jones
photo credit: A-K Purkiss

Guy C. Lloyd-Jones FRS Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry

School of Chemistry Joseph Black Building David Brewster Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FJ, UK

Guy.Lloyd-Jones@ed.ac.uk

Dr Rachel Slater-Pennington Programme Grant Manager

rslater@ed.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0) 131 650 4714

Career

2015Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Scotland (The Royal Society of Edinburgh; FRSE)
2013Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
2013Elected Fellow of the UK National Academy of Science (The Royal Society, FRS)
2012-2013Head of Organic and Biological Chemistry, Bristol University
2003-2012Full Professor, Bristol University
2003Admitted as a Fellow to The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2000-2003Reader, Bristol University
1996-2000Lecturer, Bristol University
1993-1995Royal Society Western European postdoctoral research fellow; Andreas Pfaltz, Basel University, Switzerland
1989-1992D.Phil (Doctorate in Organic Chemistry); John M. Brown FRS, Oxford University, UK
1987-1988ICI Pharmaceuticals (now AstraZeneca)
1985-1989BSc Hons (Applied Chemistry) Huddersfield Polytechnic (now University of Huddersfield)

Awards and Distinguished Lectureships

2026Indiana University, VJ Shiner Jr Distinguished Lecturer, 2026
2025Scripps Research Institute, Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship, 2025
2025University of Bristol, The AstraZeneca Lecture, BSM, 2025
2024University of Chicago, The Morris S Kharasch Visiting Professorship, 2023/4
2024University of Iowa, The Wawzonek Lecture, 2024
2023University of Edinburgh, The Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, 2023
2022American Chemical Society, Arthur C Cope Scholar Award, 2022
2018Royal Society of Chemistry, Pedler Award, 2018
2018EuroJOC Award Lecture, GDCh Liebig ORCHEM, Berlin, 2018
2018International Organic Chemistry Foundation,  40th Yoshida Award Lectureship, 2018
2018Max Planck Institute, Muelheim,  The KOFO Student-Invited Lectureship (inaugural), 2018
2018Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science,  Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan, 2018
2018Nankai University, The Nankai Lectureship in Organic Chemistry, 2017-2018
2017Boston College, The Merck Lecture, 2017
2017University of Regensburg, The Vilsmeier Lecture, 2017
2017University of Huddersfield, The Page Lecture, 2017
2016University of British Columbia, The Aldrich Organic Chemistry Distinguished Lecture, 2015-2016
2015Harvard University, Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship, 2015
2015Oxford University, Andrew Derome Lectureship, 2014-2015
2014Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Tilden Prize, 2014
2014Huddersfield UniversityHon D.Univ. 2014
2014Queen's University Canada, The Frost Lectureship, 2013-2014
2013RSC 2013 Physical Organic Chemistry Medal, Ingold Lectureship, 2013
2013University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Novartis Lectureship, 2013
2012UC Berkeley, The Clayton H. Heathcock Lecture, 2012
2011Princeton University, The Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectureship, 2011 (inaugural)
2010GSK/AZ/Pfizer/Syngenta UK Prize for Process Chemistry Research, 2010
2009Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship, 2009
2008-2013Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
2008State University of New York, Foster Chemistry Lectureship, 2008
2007Royal Society of Chemistry, Organic Reaction Mechanisms Prize, 2007
2006Czech Academy of Sciences, Invited Lecturer Series, 2006
2004Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 21st Century of Excellence Lectureship, 2004
2004Thieme Journals Award
2003German Chemical Society (GDCh), The Liebig Lectureship, 2003
2003The AstraZeneca Academic Prize in Organic Chemistry
2003Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan Medal
2000-2003The Hickinbottom Fellowship of the Royal Society Chemistry
2001The Sir William Briggs Scholarship
1997Zeneca Strategic Research Award
1993Royal Society Western European Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993-1995)

Invited Lectures

295. Plenary Lecture, BOSS XIX, Lueven, Belgium, 2026

294. Plenary Lecture, XXX Biennial Organic Meeting of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry, 2025

293. Invited Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 2026

292. The VJ Shiner Jr Lecture, Indiana, USA, 2026

291. Invited Lecture, University of Vienna, Austria, 2026

290. Invited lecture, RSC NMR Discussion Group, 2025

289. The Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Scripps, USA, 2025

288. Invited Lecture, Genentech, USA, 2025

287. Invited Lecture, Organic Reactions and Processes Gordon Conference, USA, 2025; “Mechanisms of Simple Processes"

286. Keynote Lecture, Organic Reactions and Processes Gordon Research Seminar, USA, 2025; "Kinetics by NMR Spectroscopy"

285. The AstraZeneca Lecture, Bristol Synthesis Meeting, Bristol, UK, 2025; "Simply Complex"

284. Invited Lecture, RSC/SCI Process Chemistry Technology Group, Macclesfield, UK, 2025; “Probing Mechanisms by NMR"

283. Plenary Lecture, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain, 2025; "Kinetics, Mechanism, and in situ NMR Spectroscopy"

Interests

  • Reaction Mechanism
  • Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis (Pd, Ni, W, Mo, Rh, Ru, Cu)
  • Stoichiometric Reagents (B, Si, Li, In, Ga)
  • Isotopic Labelling (2H, 13C, 10B, 15N, 18O, 34S, 108Pd)
  • Rearrangements
  • Ligand Design
  • Hydrogen Bonding and Ligand Basicity
  • NMR
  • Kinetics

Professional Activities

Personal

Prof. Lloyd-Jones is married to Kathryn, lives in Edinburgh, and enjoys fly-fishing for Salmon, malt whisky, and lawn bowls.