Darren J. Dixon DPhil, MA

Darren J. Dixon is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. He studied at the University of Oxford for his Masters's degree (awarded in 1993) and his DPhil (awarded in 1997) for natural product total synthesis research supervised by Professor Stephen G. Davies. After postdoctoral work with Professor Steven V. Ley CBE, FRS, he joined the faculty at the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge in 2000. In 2004 he took a Senior Lectureship at The University of Manchester and in 2007 he was promoted to Reader. In 2008 he moved to his current post at the University of Oxford where he is a Professor of Chemistry and is the Knowles-Williams Tutorial Fellow in Organic Chemistry at Wadham College.

His honours include an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, the RSC Catalysis in Organic Chemistry Award, the AstraZeneca Research Award, Novartis Chemistry Lectureship and Distinguished Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Perugia and Kyoto. He is Director of the Synthesis for Biology and Medicine CDT in Oxford and is Co-founder, Director, and Chief Scientific Officer of Cortex Organics Ltd, a spin-out of the University of Oxford specialising in high-value product development and innovative route development to complex molecular targets of high value to the pharmaceutical sector.