Chris Richards

A native of Woking in Surrey, I moved west to become an undergraduate at the University of Bath (1983 - 1987, including a year at Pfizer Central Research 1985 - 86). A move north then led to postgraduate research under the supervision of Sue Gibson at the University of Warwick (1987 - 1990) on irontricarbonyl complexes of vinylketenes and vinylketenimines and their application to asymmetric synthesis. This was followed by an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Heidelberg University,Germany, working on chiral Lewis acids with Gunter Helmchen (1990 - 1992). Returning to the UK, I took up a lectureship at Cardiff University and was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1999. In May 2001 I took up to a readership at Queen Mary, University of London, before moving to my current position in September 2007. Recreation time is mainly based in the mountains, either climbing up or skiing down.