William P. Unsworth
Will is originally from Coppull, near Chorley in Lancashire (UK). He studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, and remained there to complete his PhD studies in the group of Professor Jeremy Robertson. He completed his PhD in 2010 and then began work at the University of York, first as a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Professor Richard J K Taylor, before being appointed to a Research and Teaching Fellowship in 2013. In 2016 Will took up a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to develop new procedures to synthesise functionalised macrocycles. He was then holder of the inaugrual Eleanor Dodson Fellowship at the University of York, and is now a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Ass. Prof). His current research interests include ring expansion approaches for the synthesis of medium-sized rings and macrocycles, the construction of diverse spirocyclic scaffolds, cascade reactions, photochemistry and biocatalysis. Will lives in York with his wife Hayley and children Billy and Catherine.
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