Duncan Browne's Biography

Duncan Browne, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Cardiff University

Duncan Browne studied Chemistry with Study in Industry, at the University of Sheffield (with a placement at GSK) graduating in 2006. He obtained his PhD in 2009 from the same institution under the guidance of Prof. Joe Harrity and in collaboration with Syngenta. Following a one year EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship, in 2010 he joined Prof Steve Ley FRS CBE at the University of Cambridge. In 2012, he was appointed as a college teaching associate at Sidney Sussex College prior to joining the college fellowship and becoming director of studies. In 2014, Duncan was appointed as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Cardiff University, his current research interests include the development of methods to access under-represented organo-fluorine motifs, the development of continuous flow processing techniques and the exploration of mechano-chemical methods for synthetic chemistry.