Philip Gale

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Phil Gale was born in Liverpool. He graduated with a BA (Hons.) in chemistry from Wadham College, Oxford in 1992 and a DPhil from Linacre College, Oxford in 1995. He then took up a Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin working in Professor Jonathan L. Sessler's research group. In 1997 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford moving to the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton in September 1999 as Royal Society URF and Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2005 and to a Personal Chair in Supramolecular Chemistry in 2007. His interests in supramolecular chemistry are focused on anionic species and specifically on synthetic anion receptor chemistry and the roles anions can play in self-assembly, crystal engineering and the transport of anions through lipid bilayer membranes. He was awarded the 2004 Bob Hay lectureship by the RSC UK Macrocycles and Supramolecular Chemistry Group and was also the recipient of a 2005 RSC Corday-Morgan medal and prize. Phil is the co-editor (with Jonathan Sessler) of the journal Supramolecular Chemistry, a commissioning editor for the RSC's Chemical Society Reviews and a member of the international editorial advisory boards of Coordination Chemistry Reviews and Chemical Communications. In addition he is a member of the scientific committee of the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (which he will organize in the UK in 2011) and of RSC Science Policy Board.