Michael Tilby

Background

About Michael Tilby

I grew up in Hertfordshire where I attended state school, before obtaining his MChem degree in 2016 from the University of Oxford, Keble College. My final year project was with Prof. Michael Willis and Prof. Rob Paton combining synthesis and computational chemistry in Rhodium catalysis. I then stayed at Keble College and joined the Synthesis for Biology and Medicine Central Doctoral Training programme, providing me the opportunity to engage in multidisciplinary projects, including with Prof. Véronique Gourveneur and Prof. Fernanda Duarte. In 2021 I graduated with a DPhil on 'Synthesis and Reactivity of Aza-Sulfur Compounds' under the supervision of Prof. Michael Willis. I then moved to the University of Manchester to take up Postdoctoral Research with Prof. Daniele Leonori. Subsequently in 2022 I moved with the group to RWTH-Aachen University in Germany. During this period I focused on developing new photochemical reactions, studying quantum mechanical tunnelling and applying machine learning algorithms for problems in chemistry. In 2024 I moved back to the UK to start my independent career at the University of Bristol, as the Lecturer in Digital Chemistry for Synsthesis.