John Pickett#
| Membership Number: | 7415 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/pickettj4 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8386-3770 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L9-3g8kAAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - 2024 Interim Head, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University
- 2017 - present Professor of Biological Chemistry, Cardiff University
- 2010 - 2017 Michael Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow, Rothamsted Research (RR)
- 2010 - 2014 Scientific Leader of Chemical Ecology, RR
- 2007 - 2010 Scientific Director, Centre for Sustainable Pest and Disease Management
- 1984 - 2010 Head, Band 2, Individual Merit, RR
- 1976 - 1983 Principal Scientific Officer, RR
- 1972 - 1976 Senior Scientist, Brewing Research Foundation
- 1970 - 1972 Postdoc fellow, Haszeldine, FRS, U. of Manchester Institute of Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Biocatalysis
- Biological chemistry of human health
- Secondary chemistry of molecular genetics
- Chemistry for sustainability
- Biological chemistry of agriculture
- Terpenoid chemistry
- Biological chemistry
- Chemistry of biosynthesis
- Biological chemistry of animal health
- Chemical ecology
Honours and Awards
- National Academies:
- 2020 Learned Society of Wales, Fellow
- 2014 National Academy of Sciences (US), International Member
- 2001 Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Member
- 1996 Royal Society (UK), Fellow
- Major prizes and Honours:
- 2025 Distinguished Laureate Fellow, International Engineering and Technology Institute
- 2024 Revalidated: Chartered Chemist (initially 1975); Chartered Scientist (initially 2004)
- 2020 Agriculture and Food Summit, World Laureates 3rd Forum, presented and chaired
- 2017 Sterling B Hendricks Memorial Prize Lecture, American Chemical Society
- 2016 Bruker NMR Award, Phytochemical Society of Europe
- 2014 President, Royal Entomological Society, elected
- 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE, Agriculture, jointly awarded
- 2008 Croonian Prize Lecture, Royal Society premier lecture.
- 2004 CBE (UK National Recognition) Services to Biological Chemistry, appointed
- 1995 Rank Prize, Nutrition and Crop Husbandry
- Honorary Degrees:
- 2025 Honorary Professor, Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, China
- 2019 Honorary DSc, University of Hertfordshire
- 2017 Honorary Professor, University of Exeter
- 2017 Honorary Professor, University of Warwick
- 2016 Honorary DSc, University of Surrey
- 2016 Honorary DSc, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 2016 Honorary Distinguished Professor, Cardiff University
- 2011 Bachelor of the University of Surrey, honoris causa
- 2008 Honorary DSc, University of Aberdeen
- 1991 Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, quod reliquum est vitae
- ERC Grants:
- e.g. 2015 - 2019, Chair of Technical Steering Committee, ICIPE, Kenya, IBCARP, European Research Council (ERC)
