John Bower

	Contact details
	Address:	Department of Chemistry
		University of Liverpool
		Crown Street,
		Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
	E-mail:	john.bower@liverpool.ac.uk
	Telephone:	+44 (0)151 794 3534

Career summary (full curriculum vitae)

2020 – present	Regius Professor of Chemistry, University of Liverpool.
2020 – present	Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Bristol.
2017 – 2020	Professor of Chemistry, University of Bristol.
2016 – 2017	Reader in Organic Chemistry, University of Bristol.
2015 – 2016	Senior Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol.
2014 – 2015	Proleptic Lectureship, University of Bristol.
2010 – 2018	Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Bristol.
2008 – 2010	Postdoctoral Associate, University of Oxford (T. J. Donohoe).
2007 – 2008	Postdoctoral Associate, University of Texas at Austin (M. J. Krische).
2003 – 2007	PhD, University of Bristol (T. Gallagher).
1999 – 2003	MSci (Hons., 1st class), University of Bristol.

John Bower obtained his MSci degree in Chemistry in 2003 from the University of Bristol. He then remained at Bristol to study for his PhD degree (2007) under the guidance of Professor Timothy Gallagher. During this time his research focused on the development of cyclic sulfamidate based N-heterocyclic methodologies and their application to natural product synthesis. His first postdoctoral appointment (2007-2008) was with Professor Michael Krische at the University of Texas at Austin where he investigated transfer hydrogenative strategies for carbonyl addition. He then undertook a second postdoctoral appointment with Professor Timothy Donohoe at the University of Oxford where he focussed on the use of olefin cross metathesis for heteroaryl synthesis. In 2010, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and commenced his independent career at the University of Bristol. In 2020, he was appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. The group’s research interests lie broadly within the area of asymmetric catalysis with a particular focus on metal-catalysed processes and their application to heterocyclic chemistry. A special emphasis is placed on the development of green processes (i.e. atom economy, step economy and selectivity).                                               

Awards, Prizes and Fellowships

2021	Liebig Lectureship of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
2020	Appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool
2019	European Research Council (ERC) “Consolidator” Investigator
2016	Philip Leverhulme Prize
	Announced in The Times on October 22, 2016
2015	Royal Society of Chemistry Hickinbottom Award and associated Briggs Scholarship
	Highlighted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 11609
2014	European Research Council (ERC) “Starter” Investigator
2014	Junior Scientists’ Programme Fellowship of the 49th Bürgenstock Conference
2013	Royal Society of Chemistry and Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis Young Investigator Award
2013	Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize
	Highlighted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 9890
2013	Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
2010	Royal Society University Research Fellowship
2010	EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (declined)
2005	Syngenta Postgraduate Scholarship in Organic Chemistry
2003	Mike Rothwell Prize from the University of Bristol