Chris L. Willis BSc, DPhil

Chris completed her BSc at Queen Mary, University of London and D. Phil at the University of Sussex then moved to a PDRA position with Professor Jake MacMillan FRS at the University of Bristol. She was working within this interdisciplinary group on the role of gibberellins in plant growth and development that laid the foundation for her wide interests in natural products. Chris was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1990 and promoted to Professor in 2000. She Works in her group focuses on the development of synthetic methodology and applications to natural product synthesis and understanding of biological processes. She was awarded the RSC Flintoff Medal in 2008 and a University of Bristol Teaching and Learning Award in 2010.