Director of the Centre of Synthesis and Chemical Biology and Full Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry at University College Dublin. B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. Elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2013, awarded the Boyle Higgins Gold Medal in 2014, and in August 2015  became the first Irish academic to be elected President of the International Scientific Committee of the European Symposium of Organic Chemistry (ESOC).