Michael Willis

 Michael Willis received his undergraduate education at Imperial College London, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge working with Prof. Steven V. Ley. After a postdoctoral stay with Prof. David A. Evans at Harvard University, as a NATO/Royal Society Research Fellow, he was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Bath in November 1997. In January 2007 he moved to the University of Oxford, where he is now a Professor of Chemistry and a Fellow of Lincoln College. His group's research interests are based on the development and application of new catalytic processes for organic synthesis.