Gillian Reid

Gillian Reid FRSC is a British chemist who is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Southampton. Her research considers coordination chemistry, inorganic semiconductors and metal fluoride scaffolds. In 2020 she was appointed the President-elected of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Gillian Reid
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton
ThesisStudies on transition metal macrocyclic complexes. (1989)

Early life and education

Reid became interested in chemistry whist at high school. She eventually studied chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1986. She remained there for her doctoral research, where she studied macrocyclic complexes.[1] After earning her degree in 1989, Reid moved to the University of Southampton for a postdoctoral research position.

Research and career

In 1991 Reid joined the University of Southampton as a lecturer. She was promoted to Professor in 2006.[2] Under her leadership, Southampton joined the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry.[3] Reid leads molecular assembly and structure at the University of Southampton.[4]

Her research considers inorganic coordination chemistry, with a particular focus on the design of macrocyclic ligands that involve chalcogen donor atoms.[5] She makes use of non-aqueous electrodeposition to grow inorganic semiconductor alloys.[6] Electrodeposition allows for bottom-up growth without the need for an ultra-high vacuum environment.[6] Reid has created molecular reagents that allow the synthesis of compounds for use in non-volatile memory and thermoelectric generators. The reagents deposit thin films of highly pure germanium telluride.[7]

In 2002, Reid co-founded the Southampton Science and Engineering Day, which has since evolved into the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival.[2] The event was founded to coincide with British Science Week, which occurs annually in March.[2] In 2010 Reid was made the Head of the Department of Chemistry Outreach Programme. In 2015 she led the Royal Society Summer Science exhibit Taking Technology Smaller, which introduced the public to electrochemistry as a means to build nanoscale electronic devices.[8]

Awards and honours
  • 2006 Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching in Chemistry[2]
  • 2007 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Achievement in the Promotion of Chemistry[2]
  • 2011 Elected a member of the council of the Royal Society of Chemistry[9]
  • 2019 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 2020 Appointed the President-elected of the Royal Society of Chemistry[10][11]

Selected publications
  • Levason, William; Orchard, Simon D.; Reid, Gillian (2002-02-01). "Recent developments in the chemistry of selenoethers and telluroethers". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 225 (1): 159–199. doi:10.1016/S0010-8545(01)00412-X. ISSN 0010-8545.
  • Lin, Gang; Reid, Gillian; Bugg, Timothy D. H. (May 2001). "Extradiol Oxidative Cleavage of Catechols by Ferrous and Ferric Complexes of 1,4,7-Triazacyclononane: Insight into the Mechanism of the Extradiol Catechol Dioxygenases". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123 (21): 5030–5039. doi:10.1021/ja004280u. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 11457331.
  • Cheng, Fei; Hector, Andrew L.; Levason, William; Reid, Gillian; Webster, Michael; Zhang, Wenjian (2009-06-29). "Germanium(II) Dications Stabilized by Azamacrocycles and Crown Ethers". Angewandte Chemie. 121 (28): 5254–5256. doi:10.1002/ange.200901247. PMID 19504510.

Personal life

Reid has two children.

References
  1. Reid, Gillian; University of Edinburgh (1989). Studies on transition metal macrocyclic complexes. hdl:1842/12853. OCLC 1064872347.
  2. "Prof Gill Reid | Chemistry | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  3. "Chemistry Partnership Opens New Opportunities for Innovation". Life Science Integrates. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  4. "SCFED Project". www.scfed.net. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  5. Chang, Yao-Pang; Levason, William; Reid, Gillian (2016-11-22). "Developments in the chemistry of the hard early metals (Groups 1–6) with thioether, selenoether and telluroether ligands". Dalton Transactions. 45 (46): 18393–18416. doi:10.1039/C6DT03409H. ISSN 1477-9234. PMID 27808297.
  6. N Bartlett, Philip; L Benjamin, Sophie; Groot, CH (Kees) de; L Hector, Andrew; Huang, Ruomeng; Jolleys, Andrew; P Kissling, Gabriela; Levason, William; J Pearce, Stuart; Reid, Gillian; Wang, Yudong (2015). "Non-aqueous electrodeposition of functional semiconducting metal chalcogenides Ge2 Sb2 Te5 phase change memory". Materials Horizons. 2 (4): 420–426. doi:10.1039/C5MH00030K.
  7. "Novel thin film approach for memory and energy harvesting devices". Printed Electronics World. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  8. "Royal Society invitation for scientists at Southampton who are Taking Technology Smaller | Chemistry | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  9. "Professor Gill Reid | Chemistry | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  10. "Gill Reid wins presidential election". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  11. "Gill Reid elected to become president of the Royal Society of Chemistry | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
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