Professor Steve Goldup

Steve has taught chemistry at Imperial College, the University of Edinburgh, Queen Mary University of London and University of Southampton, and as a Visiting Professor in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. He has lectured on a range of topics including organic chemistry (carbonyl chemistry, sugar chemistry, nucleotide chemsitry), physical organic chemistry, spectroscopy and bioinorganic chemistry.

Steve obtained an MChem degree from the University of Oxford where he began his research career with a Part II project in the group of Sir Prof. Jack Baldwin. He continued his research training with a PhD in natural product synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Tony Barrett before shifting focus to apply his synthetic skills to the realisation of mechanically interlocked non-natural products during post doctoral work with Prof. David Leigh at the University of Edinburgh where in 2007 he was appointed as Fixed Term Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. In 2008 he moved to Queen Mary with the award of a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and in October 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In October 2014 the group moved to the University of Southampton where Steve took up the position of Associate Professor. In August 2017, Steve was promoted to Professor of Chemistry and in 2019 was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship.

Prizes

• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2008)
• Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2009)
• Royal Society Hickinbottom Award (2014)
• Bob Hay Lectureship (2016)