Ed Anderson is Professor of Organic chemistry at the University of Oxford. He has research interests across synthetic organic chemistry, with a particular focus on the development of new synthetic methods, and the synthesis of bioactive molecules. In the former area, his research encompasses catalysis (including transition metal, asymmetric, and photoredox catalysis), bioisosteres, the reactivity of heteroatom-substituted alkynes, and mechanistic study. His work in target-oriented synthesis included antiparasitic natural products, polyketides, and the development of cascade processes in synthesis.
Ed was an undergraduate at Oxford, then moved to Cambridge for his PhD with Prof Andrew Holmes. After postdoctoral research with Profs Erik Sorensen (Scripps Research Institute) and Ian Paterson (Cambridge), he took up an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at Oxford, and was appointed as a Lecturer in 2009, with promotion to Professor in 2016. He is the recipient of the 2019 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship and the 2020 RSC Bader award, and is currently the head of Organic Chemistry at Oxford.