“For his creativity and published achievement in the area of lithiation-trapping of saturated nitrogen heterocycles, including his more recent work on the use of in situ React IR spectroscopy for monitoring the lithiation step”
“For his important contributions to asymmetric synthesis, particularly the development and applications of the (+)-sparteine surrogate”
“For the development of practical syntheses of chiral diamines and of enantioselective epoxide rearrangement reactions”
“For distinction in asymmetric organic chemistry based on the development and use of chiral bases”
York University Student’s Union (YUSU) Teacher of the Year, 2019
Royal Society Industry Fellow with AstraZeneca, 2019-2022
Panel Chair, EPSRC Physical Science Peer Review Panel, 2018
Chairperson of the RSC Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group, 2017-2020
Associate Editor of the international journal “Tetrahedron”, 1998-2017
Visiting Professor at the University of Utah, USA 2016
Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland 2006
Secretary/treasurer of the RSC Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group, 2005-2007
Member of the Organic Executive Committee of the RSC, 2005-2007
RSC Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector, Symposium on Synthesis & Drug Development (virtual), 2021
Pfizer, Groton, USA (virtual), 2020
University of Basel, Switzerland, 2019
University of Oxford, UK, 2018
1st Alpine Winter Conference on Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry, St Anton, Austria, 2018
AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK, 2017
EPSRC Dial-a-Molecule: Synthetic Tools for the Exploration of 3D Pharmaceutical Space, York, UK, 2017
Lilly, UK, 2017
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Lakeland Meeting, Grasmere, UK, 2017
34th SCI Process Development Symposium, Cambridge, UK, 2017
Frank Warren Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2016
University of Vienna, Austria, 2016
Astex, Cambridge, UK, 2016
11th International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry, Rouen, France, 2016
University of Rouen, Rouen, France, 2016
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2016