Andy is full Professor (Chair of Organic Synthesis) and currently the Director of Research for the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Andy completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, St John’s College (2002–2006, MChem, Hons 1st Class) and subsequently obtained a DPhil degree in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Sir Jack Baldwin FRS and Prof. Rob Adlington. Andy then moved to Australia to spend two years (2010–2011) as a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Mick Sherburn at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. In 2012, Andy began an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship at the ANU before moving back to the UK in 2013 for an academic position at the University of Edinburgh.