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Prof Ross Forgan is Professor of Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research into the application of metal-organic frameworks in biomimetic catalysis and nanoscale drug delivery is underpinned by fundamental studies into molecular recognition and self-assembly processes inside nanoporous materials.

He graduated with a PhD in supramolecular inorganic chemistry, under the supervision of Prof Peter Tasker, from the University of Edinburgh in 2008. A three year postdoctoral position (2008-2011) with Nobel Laureate Prof Sir J Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern University, USA, saw him research organic interlocked molecules, chemical topology and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). He returned to Scotland in 2011 as a senior research fellow in Prof Lee Cronin’s group at the University of Glasgow, investigating hybrid materials and applications of 3D-printing. After 11 months, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2012-2021) to begin his independent academic career, with subsequent promotions to Reader in 2016 and Professor in 2019.

To date Forgan has published >90 papers and 2 patents, and has given many invited seminars and lectures at conferences and universities around the world. In 2016 he won a highly prestigious ERC Starting Grant, while he was awarded the Sessler Early Career Researcher Prize in 2018 and the RSC Bob Hay Lectureship in 2020. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, President of its Porous Materials Interest Group, and founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland, for emerging leaders in science and humanities, the professions, the arts, business and civil society.

Activities

Employment (5)

University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Glasgow, GB

2019-08-01 to present | Professor of Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry (School of Chemistry)
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University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Glasgow, GB

2012-10-01 to present | Royal Society University Research Fellow (School of Chemistry)
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University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Glasgow, GB

2016-08-01 to 2019-07-31 | Reader in Chemistry (School of Chemistry)
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University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Glasgow, GB

2011-11-01 to 2012-09-30 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (School of Chemistry)
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Northwestern University: Evanston, IL, US

2008-10-01 to 2011-09-30 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Department of Chemistry)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB

2004-10-01 to 2008-06-23 | PhD in Chemistry (School of Chemistry)
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University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB

1999-10-01 to 2004-06-01 | MChem (hons) 1st Class (School of Chemistry)
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Professional activities (1)

Royal Society of Chemistry: London, London, GB

2018-09-21 to present | Fellow
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Funding (11)

An Electron Diffractometer for Nanomaterial Structure Characterisation

2023-02 to 2025-01 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

EP/X030083/1

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Installing and Controlling Dipolar Rotors in Metal-Organic Frameworks as Ultrafast Liquid Crystal Analogues

2022-03 to 2024-02 | Grant
Royal Society (London, GB)
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Ross Forgan

Stimuli-Responsive Chiral Induction and Self-Sorting in Peptide Knots and Catenanes

2021-10 to 2025-03 | Grant
Leverhulme Trust (London, GB)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER:

RPG-2020-371

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Ross Forgan

EPSRC Capital Award for Core Equipment 2020/21

2020-11-09 to 2022-05-07 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: EP/V034294/1
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Ross Forgan

EPSRC IRC in Targeted Delivery for Hard-to-Treat Cancers

2018-10 to 2023-09 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: EP/S009000/1
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Ross Forgan

Radical Chemisorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Functionalisation and Purification

2018-01 to 2021-12 | Grant
Royal Society (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

180077

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Modifying MOFs for Catalysis and Purification

2017-10 to 2020-09 | Grant
Royal Society (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

160394

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Ross Forgan

SCoTMOF

2016-09 to 2021-09 | Grant
H2020 European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

677289

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EPSRC-Royal Society fellowship engagement (2012): Biomimetic Guest-Selective Metal-Organic Frameworks: Catalysis and Self-Assembly

2013-08-30 to 2016-08-29 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/L004461/1
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/L004461/1
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Small items of research equipment at the University of Glasgow

2012-11-01 to 2013-03-31 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/K031732/1
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/K031732/1
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Engineering Metal-Organic Frameworks as Artificial Enzymes

2012-10-01 to 2017-09-01 | Grant
The Royal Society (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: 6952
GRANT_NUMBER: 6952
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Peer review (14 reviews for 8 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS applied materials & interfaces. (4)
Review activity for ACS applied nano materials. (1)
Review activity for ACS nano. (1)
Review activity for Chemical reviews. (2)
Review activity for Chemistry of materials. (1)
Review activity for Crystal growth & design. (1)
Review activity for Inorganic chemistry. (1)
Review activity for Journal of the American Chemical Society. (3)