Jeremy Sanders | |
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Born | Jeremy Keith Morris Sanders 3 May 1948 London, England, UK |
Residence | UK |
Nationality | English |
Fields | Supramolecular chemistry |
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Alma mater | |
Thesis | Paramagnetic shift reagents in N.M.R. spectroscopy (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Dudley Williams |
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Known for | Dynamic combinatorial chemistry |
Notable awards |
FRS (1995) Davy Medal (2009) |
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Jeremy Keith Morris Sanders, CBE, FRS (born 3 May 1948) is a British chemist working in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Society. He is known for his contributions to many fields including NMR spectroscopy and supramolecular chemistry. He served as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Affairs at the University of Cambridge, 2011-2015.
Educated in London at Southmead and Wandsworth Schools, he then studied chemistry at Imperial College London where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 and was awarded the Edmund White Prize. During 1969–72 he carried out his PhD research on lanthanide shift reagents, especially Eu(DPM), the original reagent developed before Eu(FOD) at Churchill College, Cambridge supervised by Dudley Williams.
Elected a Fellow of Christ's College in 1972, he spent a postdoctoral year in the Pharmacology Department, Stanford University before returning to Cambridge to become a Demonstrator in Chemistry. He was promoted to Lecturer (1978), Reader (1992) and then Professor (1996-2015). He was Head of the Chemistry Department 2000–2006, and Head of the School of Physical Sciences 2009-2011; he was also Deputy Vice-Chancellor 2006-2010 (responsible for overseeing the University's 800th Anniversary celebrations).