Russell Cox
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Biography
Russell Cox was born and brought up in New Forest, UK. He studied Chemistry at the University of Durham, UK, and gained his bachelor's degree in 1989. He stayed at Durham to study for a PhD in biological chemistry with Prof. David O’Hagan. Two periods of post-doctoral research at the University of Alberta (with Prof. John Vederas FRS) and the John Innes Centre, UK (with Prof. David Hopwood FRS) were followed by his first academic appointment at the University of Bristol in 1996.
He was promoted to Professor of Organic and Biological Chemistry at Bristol in 2009 and then moved to become Professor of Microbiological Chemistry at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, in 2013. His research interests encompass biosynthesis and metabolite engineering in fungi. He has previously served as an editorial board member for RSC Advances and Natural Product Reports.
RSC affiliations
Editors-in-Chief, RSC Advances