David Procter
David J. Procter
University of Manchester
Professor of Organic Chemistry
David John Procter was born in Leyland in Lancashire, England. He obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the University of Leeds in 1992 and his PhD in 1995 working with Professor Christopher Rayner on organosulfur and selenium chemistry. He then spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor Robert Holton at Florida State University in Tallahassee, USA working on the synthesis of analogues of the anticancer agent Taxol. In 1997 he took up a Lectureship at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in February 2004. In September 2004, he moved to a Readership at the University of Manchester. David was promoted to Professor in October 2008, has served as Head of Organic Chemistry in Manchester, and is currently Head of Department. His research interests include radical chemistry, organosulfur chemistry, catalysis, photochemistry/catalysis, and target synthesis.
