Biography of Professor Christopher J. Moody

Chris Moody is the Sir Jesse Boot Professor of Chemistry and Head of Organic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He is a Mancunian and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and King's College, London. He then carried out his PhD research at the University of Liverpool under the supervision of Charles Rees investigating the synthesis and reactions of nitrogen-sulfur ylides. He spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the ETH in Zürich with Albert Eschenmoser investigating the stereochemistry of 1,4-elimination reactions before taking up a post in industry at Roche.

In 1979 he was appointed to a lectureship at Imperial College, London, and was promoted to a readership in 1989. In 1990 he moved to a Chair of Organic Chemistry at Loughborough University, and in 1996 he was appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Exeter. He moved to his current post in Nottingham in August 2005.

He has published over 390 papers and his work has been recognised with a host of awards (see below).

Awards and Distinctions

1973 John Millar Thompson Medal for Chemistry, King's College 1986 Hickinbottom Fellowship, Royal Society of Chemistry
1986 Corday Morgan Medal & Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry 1989 Pfizer Academic Award for Chemistry
1990 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Heterocyclic Chemistry 1991 Pfizer Academic Award for Chemistry
1994 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Adelaide 1994-1996 Chairman, Heterocyclic Group, Royal Society of Chemistry
1997-2000 Vice President, Perkin Division, Royal Society of Chemistry 1998 David Craig Visiting Professorship, Australian National University
1998-1999 President, International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2000 Tilden Lectureship and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
2001 Adrien Albert Lectureship and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry 2005 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Synthetic Organic Chemistry
2008 Royal Society of Chemistry Pedler Medal 2008 Roche Lectureship
2010 Novartis Lectureship 2011 Janssen Lectureship
2012 Royal Society of Chemistry Rees Lectureship    

Chemical Genealogy

CJM Genealogy Click on the link to the left to view Chris' chemical genealogy dating back to 1615.