Professor Phil Gale

Photograph of Dr. GaleContact Details

Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 3332 | Internal: 23332
Email: philip.gale@soton.ac.uk

Biography

 

Phil received his BA (Hons) (1992) in Chemistry from the University of Oxford where he remained to undertake a DPhil (1995) under the supervision of Paul Beer. He then moved to the University of Texas at Austin where he spent two years as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in Jonathan Sessler’s group. In 1997 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and returned to the Department of Chemistry at Oxford. In 1999 he moved as a Lecturer to the University of Southampton and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2005 and to a Personal Chair in Supramolecular Chemistry in 2007.

Phil’s research interests focus on the supramolecular chemistry of anionic species and in particular the molecular recognition, sensing and lipid bilayer transport of anionic species. He is the author or co-author of over 160 publications including two books (an Oxford Chemistry Primer on Supramolecular Chemistry with Paul Beer and David Smith (1999) and an RSC Monograph in Supramolecular Chemistry entitled Anion Receptor Chemistry with Jonathan Sessler and Won-Seob Cho (2006)) and a series of highly cited review articles on anion complexation. He is currently the co-editor in chief (with Prof Jonathan Steed, Durham University) of a new major reference work from Wiley entitled “Supramolecular Chemistry: From Molecules to Nanomaterials” which is scheduled to be published in 2012.  Phil has won a number of research prizes including a Society/Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Young Investigator Award, the Bob Hay Lectureship (RSC UK Macrocycles and Supramolecular Chemistry Group) and the Corday-Morgan medal and prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry for ‘contributions to coordination and supramolecular chemistry, in particular selective anion recognition and sensing.’ Phil is the co-editor of the journal 'Supramolecular Chemistry', a commissioning editor Chemical Society Reviews and a member of the international editorial advisory boards of Coordination Chemistry Reviews, the Encyclopaedia of Supramolecular Chemistry, The Open Inorganic Chemistry Journal and Chemical Communications. In 2004 he joined the International Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) and will organize this meeting in the UK in 2011 (www.ismsc2011.org). He is currently the Deputy Head of School in the School of Chemistry and a member of RSC Science Policy Board.

Research Keywords

Supramolecular Chemistry, Anion Receptor Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Hydrogen bonding, Membrane Transport.