Professor Michael Ingleson
Personal Chair of Inorganic Chemistry

Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 4726
- Email: michael.ingleson@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Ingleson Group Website
Address
- Street
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Room 226
University of Edinburgh
Joseph Black Building
David Brewster Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FJ - City
- Post code
Background
Career
April 2019 - Appointed as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
Aug. 2018 - Appointed as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manchester
Aug. 2012 - Appointed as Reader in Chemistry at the University of Manchester
Oct 2008 – Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester
Jan 2006– Sept. 2008 PDRA with Professor Matt Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool
Nov 2004 - Dec 2005 PDRA with Professor Ken Caulton, Indiana University
Oct 2004 DPhil (Doctorate in Organometallic Chemistry); University of Bath, with Professor Andrew S. Weller
2001-2004 MChem, Chemistry with Industrial Training, University of Bath
Major Awards and Prizes
2024: RSC Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize for novel C-H borylation methodologies
2018: ERC Consolidator Grant (ECO-ZEN) on using zinc and boron electrophiles for C-C and C-B bond formation
2012: ERC Starter Grant (LAB-SMART) on using borocations in synthesis and catalysis
2012: RSC Harrison-Meldola Prize for his innovative work in borocation chemistry, particularly the borylation of arenes
2011: Young International Boron Chemist prize at IMEBORON XIV (awarded by vote to an under 35 years independent boron chemistry researcher)
Research summary
s + p block chemistry, borylation, all things boron, catalysis, organometallics, organic materials, synthesis.
See Group Webpage for more info.
https://www.ingleson.chem.ed.ac.uk/