John Pickett - Curriculum Vitae#
Prof. John Anthony Pickett, CBE, DSc, FRS, NAS (International Member)
Education:
- University of Nottingham, DSc, Chemical Ecology (1993)
- University of Surrey, Organic Chemistry, PhD (1971)
- University of Surrey, Honours Chemistry, 2:1, BSc (1967)
Career:
- 2017 - present Professor of Biological Chemistry, Cardiff University
- 2010 - 2017 Michael Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow, Rothamsted Research
- 2010 - 2014 Scientific Leader of Chemical Ecology, Rothamsted Research
- 2007 - 2010 Scientific Director, Centre for Sustainable Pest and Disease Management, Rothamsted Research
- 1984 - 2010 Head, Band 2, Individual Merit, of the Biological Chemistry Department, Rothamsted Research
- 1976 - 1983, Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Insecticides and Fungicides, Rothamsted Research
- 1972 -1976 Senior Scientist, Chemistry Department, Brewing Research Foundation
- 1970 - 1972 Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology, Synthesis & photochemistry of perfluoroalkylpyridazines, Prof R.N. Haszeldine, FRS
Some Honours/Awards:
- Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, 1991 quod reliquum est vitae
- The Rank Prize, Nutrition and Crop Husbandry, 1995
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 1996
- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 2001
- International Society of Chemical Ecology Medal, 2002
- CBE, for Services to Biological Chemistry, 2004
- Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture, 2008
- The Royal Society Croonian Prize Lecture, “Plant and Animal Communication”, 3 June 2008
- National Academy of Sciences (US) International Member, 2014
- Honorary DSc, University of Neuchâtel, October 2016
- Honorary Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, 2017
- Sterling B Hendricks Memorial Lecture: 254th American Chemical Society Natl Meeting, 2017
- Honorary DSc, University of Hertfordshire, September, 2019
- Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, 2020
- Presented at and chaired the 3rd Agriculture and Food Summit, World Laureates Forum, 2020
- Distinguished Laureate Fellow, International Engineering and Technology Institute, January, 2025
Some Recent Grants:
- Advancing high value terpenoidal semiochemicals for crop protection, CoI, BBSRC, IAA, 525544, £49,942, 2023 - 2024
- Identification and exploitation of long range outdoor sugar feeding cues for the malarial pathogen vector Anopheles gambiae, PI, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health, INV-053885 $3.4 million, 2023 - 2026
- Elucidating biosynthesis of the Lutzomyia longipalpis sandfly pheromone for sustainable production and control of leishmaniasis. Co-I, BBSRC, BB/V003933/1, £328K, 2021 - 2024
- Development of novel semiochemicals for crop protection. Co-I, BBSRC, BB/R019681/1, £551K, 2018- 2023
Papers: over 600
