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P. Andrew Evans is a Welsh Chemist and the Alfred R. Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Organic and Organometallic Chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Education and Early Life edit
Evans was born in Llangollen in North Wales on June 20, 1964. He received a B.Sc. with First-Class Honors in Applied Chemistry at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1987, where he did undergraduate research with Professor Stephen Stanforth.
He then completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1991 under the supervision of Andrew B. Holmes, FRS working on a novel Claisen rearrangement to facilitate the construction of medium-ring aazacycles.
He then completed postdoctoral studies with Philip D. Magnus, FRS, at the University of Texas at Austin as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow. .
Career and Research edit
In 1993 he initiated his independent career at the University of Delaware, where he rose through the ranks to Professor before moving to Indiana University in 2001. In 2006, he moved to the University of Liverpool, where he was the Heath Harrison Chair of Organic Chemistry, before moving to his current position in July 2012.
He has delivered over 425 plenary and invited lectures at high profile national and international conferences, symposia, universities, research institutes and companies, which attests to his ability to disseminate his work to a broad audience.
Awards and Honors edit
His research accomplishments have been globally recognized. Recent awards and honors include the 2020 Harry and Carol Mosher Award, a Changjiang Scholar Award in 2019 , an ACS Cope Scholar Award in 2017, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in 2012 and election as an ACS Fellow in 2011. In addition, he has won the following awards: the RSC Pedler Award, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Pfizer Creativity in Organic Chemistry Award, a Johnson and Johnson Focused Giving Award, the Novartis Pharmaceuticals Academic Achievement Award, GlaxoWellcome Chemistry Scholar Award, Eli Lilly Grantee Award, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Zeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award, the Francis Alison Outstanding Young Scholar and an NIH First Award.
He has also been recognized with a number of named lectureships, namely, the Changjiang Lecturer at Wuhan University (2017), Gilead Lecturer at the University of Ottawa (2017), Herbert C. Brown Award Symposium in Honor of Gary A. Molander (2015), the inaugural Doug Butler Lecturer at York University (2015) and the Lilly Lecturer at the Imperial College London (2011).
Professional Service edit
Evans is also leader in the chemical community as a member of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, in which he has served as a Member-at-Large (2003-2005), the 2007 National Organic Symposium Executive Officer, the Division Chair (2009-2011) and as a Division Councilor (2012-2014).
He is currently the co-organizer of the highly acclaimed ACS-DOC Graduate Research Symposium (2010-present), which provides an opportunity for 50-65 graduate students in organic chemistry to interact with leaders from academia, industry, various funding agencies and publishers.
He has also served as a member of many editorial boards for prominent journals, e.g., Chemical Communications (2008-2010), Synlett/Synthesis (2009-2010) and Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters (2003-2015), He was also the US Associate Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Chemical Communications (2005-2007). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Thieme journal, Synthesis (2010-present). Evans is also the current Editor-in-Chief of Organic Reactions following an illustrious list of predecessors who have led this organization since 1942, namely, Roger Adams, Arthur C. Cope, William Dauben, Leo Paquette, Larry E. Overman and Scott E. Denmark.
He has also served on many grant funding panels, which includes a term as a member of the NIH study section.
Personal Life edit
Evans loves the outdoors and one of his passions when he was in the UK was to go for coastal walks in Devon and on the Isle of Skye. He is also a keen gardener and he is voracious reader on Roman History. He lives in Kingston, Ontario with his wife Katie and his two Jack Russell Terriers, Charlie and Lilly.