Adam Nelson BA, PhD

Adam Nelson is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Leeds, with research interests in synthetic organic chemistry and chemical biology. He obtained a BA in Natural Sciences from Churchill College, University of Cambridge in 1993, and his PhD (under the supervisor of Dr Stuart Warren) in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, also from Cambridge, in 1996. He undertook postdoctoral research with Prof. E. J. Thomas at the University of Manchester before joining the academic staff at the University of Leeds in 1998. He was the Director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology (2009-2011). He currently leads on developing industrial links with the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology.