Dr Ross S Forgan
Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader
School of Chemistry
University of Glasgow
MChem(Hons) 1st Class, University of Edinburgh, 2004
PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2008
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University, 2008-2011
Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, 2011-2012
Dr Ross Forgan is a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2012-) and Reader in Chemistry (2016-) 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 took up his current position.
To date Forgan has published 53 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. He is also a 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, and is an active contributor to their science communication blog Research The Headlines. He also currently teaches the Chemistry 1 Transition Metals lecture course - click here for additional materials.
