Professor Guillaume De Bo
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Guillaume is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He obtained his Master's Degree in Chemistry (summa cum laude) from the University of Louvain (Belgium) in 2004. He did his Master's thesis under the supervision of Prof István E. Markó on the development of platinum-based catalyst for the hydrosilylation of alkynes. He obtained a fellowship from the FRIA to undertake a PhD, in the same laboratory, on the synthesis of angular triquinanes. In 2009 he took a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Prof Jean-François Gohy and Charles-André Fustin (UCL, Belgium) to work on the assembly of mechanically-linked block copolymers. In 2011, after having obtained a Bourse d’excellence from the WBI and a Fellowship for International Mobility from the FRS he joined the group of Prof David A. Leigh, first in Edinburgh then in Manchester, to work on the development of molecular machines. He started his independent career in January 2016 at the University of Manchester, under the impulse of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2021 and Professor in 2022.
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Career
Since 2022 Professor of Organic Chemistry (University of Manchester)
2021-2022 Senior Lecturer (University of Manchester)
2016-2023 Royal Society University Research Fellow (University of Manchester)
2012-2015 Research Fellow/Project Manager (Prof. David A. Leigh, University of Manchester)
2011-2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Prof. David A. Leigh, University of Edinburgh)
2009-2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Prof. Jean-François Gohy and Prof. Charles-André Fustin, University of Louvain)
2004-2009 PhD (Prof. István E. Markó, University of Louvain)
2021-2022 Senior Lecturer (University of Manchester)
2016-2023 Royal Society University Research Fellow (University of Manchester)
2012-2015 Research Fellow/Project Manager (Prof. David A. Leigh, University of Manchester)
2011-2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Prof. David A. Leigh, University of Edinburgh)
2009-2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Prof. Jean-François Gohy and Prof. Charles-André Fustin, University of Louvain)
2004-2009 PhD (Prof. István E. Markó, University of Louvain)
Awards and Accolades
2025 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Investigator Award
2024 Selected as one of the 50 Scientists that Inspire by Cell Press
2022 ERC Consolidator Grant
2021 Bob Hay Lectureship
2021 Macro Group UK Young Researcher Medal
2020 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2015 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
2024 Selected as one of the 50 Scientists that Inspire by Cell Press
2022 ERC Consolidator Grant
2021 Bob Hay Lectureship
2021 Macro Group UK Young Researcher Medal
2020 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2015 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Offices in learned societies
Since 2025 Member of the Royal Society’s Research Grants Committee: Physical Sciences
2021-2022 Member of the Royal Society’s International Programmes Advisory Group
Since 2020 Member of the RSC-Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry group committee
2020-2022 Member of the SCI Young Chemists' Panel
2017-2022 Member of the RSC local section - Manchester and District committee (Science rep)
2014-2017 Secretary of the RAPS committee (Recent Appointees in Polymer Science)
2021-2022 Member of the Royal Society’s International Programmes Advisory Group
Since 2020 Member of the RSC-Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry group committee
2020-2022 Member of the SCI Young Chemists' Panel
2017-2022 Member of the RSC local section - Manchester and District committee (Science rep)
2014-2017 Secretary of the RAPS committee (Recent Appointees in Polymer Science)
Editorial work
Since 2023 Member of the Advisory Board of RSC Mechanochemistry
Since 2021 Member of the Editorial Board of Supramolecular Materials (KeAi)
2017-2018 Guest editor of a Supramolecular Chemistry Special Issue on Emerging Supramolecular Chemistry in the UK
2016-2019 Chem (Cell Press) Next-Generation Advisor
Since 2021 Member of the Editorial Board of Supramolecular Materials (KeAi)
2017-2018 Guest editor of a Supramolecular Chemistry Special Issue on Emerging Supramolecular Chemistry in the UK
2016-2019 Chem (Cell Press) Next-Generation Advisor
Networks
2019-2023 Member of the Mechanochemistry for Sustainable Industry COST Action (CA18112) network
Fellowships and memberships of learned societies
Since 2019 Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
2017-2022 Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Since 2013 Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Since 2009 Member of the American Chemical Society
2017-2022 Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Since 2013 Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Since 2009 Member of the American Chemical Society
Researcher IDs
Profiles and Interviews
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Expert comments
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about our recent Chemical Science paper on the mechanochemical generation of aryne.
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemical and Engineering News about our Nature paper on force-controlled release with a rotaxane actuator
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Science paper on flyby reaction trajectories under extrinsic force
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about our Nature Chemistry paper on concomitant dissociation pathways of a mechanophore
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Nature paper on self-assembled polycatenanes.
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about our JACS paper on the use of a catenane as a mechanochemical protecting group
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemical and Engineering News about this JACS paper on a latent mechanoacid
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Nature Chemistry paper on force-stabilised thiol-maleimide adducts.
Read Guillaume's comment in La Recherche (in French) about a peptide-synthesising molecular machine
Listen to Guillaume's interview (in French) in the popular science show O Positif on La Premiere (Belgian public broadcaster)
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemical and Engineering News about our Nature paper on force-controlled release with a rotaxane actuator
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Science paper on flyby reaction trajectories under extrinsic force
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about our Nature Chemistry paper on concomitant dissociation pathways of a mechanophore
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Nature paper on self-assembled polycatenanes.
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about our JACS paper on the use of a catenane as a mechanochemical protecting group
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemical and Engineering News about this JACS paper on a latent mechanoacid
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Nature Chemistry paper on force-stabilised thiol-maleimide adducts.
Read Guillaume's comment in La Recherche (in French) about a peptide-synthesising molecular machine
Listen to Guillaume's interview (in French) in the popular science show O Positif on La Premiere (Belgian public broadcaster)
Funding
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