Professor Richard John Kenneth Taylor, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.C.
Curriculum Vitae
1. Personal Information
Current Position: Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York (since 1993)
University Address: Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Telephone: (01904) 322606
Fax: (01904) 324523
Email: richard.taylor@york.ac.uk
Website: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/rjkt/
Date/Place of Birth: 22 March 1949, Skegness, Lincolnshire.
Marital Status: Married with 3 children
Sex: Male
2. Qualifications
Bachelor of Science: First Class Honours in Chemistry, University of Sheffield (1970).
Doctor of Philosophy: University of Sheffield (1973). Research Supervisor: Dr D Neville Jones.
Thesis Title: The Synthesis and Chiroptical Properties of Allyl and Cyclic Sulphoxides.
3. Postdoctoral Studies
- Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California, working with Dr Ian T Harrison on prostaglandins (1973-1974).
- Postdoctoral fellowship at University College London, working with Professor Franz Sondheimer on the synthesis of novel bicyclic annulenes (1974-1975).
4. Major Awards and Distinctions
- 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry's Natural Product Chemistry Award
- 2010-2015 Head of Department, Chemistry, University of York
- 2009-2011 President of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry.
- 2007-2008 Royal Society of Chemistry's Synthetic Organic Chemistry Prize and Medal.
- 2006-2007 Pedler Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 2005 UK Regional Editor of the international journal Tetrahedron (since 1997); Member of Executive Board of Tetrahedron Publications.
- 2003-2004 Inaugural President of the Organic Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 2001-2003 President of the Perkin Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 2000-2001 Chairman of the Royal Society of Chemistry Heterocyclic Group.
- 1999-2000 Tilden Medallist and Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 1999 Royal Society of Chemistry Heterocyclic Chemistry Award.
- 1985-1987 The Royal Society of Chemistry's Hickinbottom Fellowship.
5. Other distinctions
- 2008 Joint Editor-in-Chief, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III (15 Volumes), Elsevier.
- 2007 Chairman of the 20th International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, July 2007, Churchill College, Cambridge.
- 2005 Visiting National Science Council Lecturer to Taiwan (lectures at Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University and NTNU).
- 2004 Editor-in-Chief, Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II (7Volumes), Elsevier.
- 2004 RACI Visiting Lecturer (Plenaries in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne; Seminar in Canberra).
- 2004 Visiting Professor, Catholique University of Louvain, Belgium.
- 1998 Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand.