Varinder Aggarwal#
| Membership Number: | 5395 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/org/aggarwal |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0344-6430 |
| Twitter: | @VarinderAggar11 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/varinder-aggarwal-0466065/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Professor in Synthetic Chemistry, Bristol University
- 1997 - 2000 Professor in Chemistry, Sheffield University
- 1995 - 1997 Reader in Chemistry, Sheffield University
- 1991 - 1995 Lecturer in Chemistry, Sheffield University
- 1988 - 1991 Lecturer in Chemistry, Bath University
- 1986 - 1988 Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Gilbert Stork, Columbia University, New York
Fields of Scholarship
- Natural product synthesis
- Organoboron chemistry
- Asymmetric synthesis using sulfoxides
- Asymmetric synthesis
- Asymmetric catalysis
- Ylide reactions
- Organosulfur chemistry
- Stereoselective synthesis
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Royal Society Davy Medal
- 2019 Yamada-Koga Award
- 2019 ACS Cope Scholar Award
- 2018 Kurt Alder Lecturer, Cologne
- 2017 RSC Organic Synthesis Award
- 2017 Humboldt Research Award
- 2013 RSC Perkin Award
- 2013 Chemical Research Society of India Medal
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2010 Felix Serratosa Lecture, Barcelona
- 2009 SCI Award for Process Research (GSK-AZ-Pfizer)
- 2009 RSC Stereochemistry Award
- 2007 RSC Tilden Lecturer awarded
- 2007 RSC/GDCh-Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship (inaugural)
- 2006 - 2011 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- 2004 RSC Reaction Mechanism Award
- 2003 RSC Green Chemistry Award
- 1999 Liebigs Lecturship (inaugural) (Germany)
- 1999 RSC Corday Morgan Prize and Medal
- 1997 RSC Hickinbottom Fellowship
