Emeritus ProfessorAndrew Holmes, AC FRS FAA FTSE

Imperial College Department of Chemistry (Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow); University of Melbourne School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute (Melbourne Laureate Professor Emeritus, Professor of Chemistry).

Andrew Holmes was an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne and completed his doctoral studies at University College London in 1971. He then held a Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship at the ETH-Zürich from 1971-1972. He was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Cambridge in 1972 and remained there for the next 32 years, ultimately as Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis and Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry. In 2004 he moved to Imperial College London and thereafter was given leave of absence to accept an ARC Federation Fellowship and Inaugural veski Innovation Fellowship from 2004-2009 at the School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute in the University of Melbourne. He subsequently became a CSIRO Fellow, a University of Melbourne Laureate Professor, Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College and was the Newton Abraham Visiting Professor, University of Oxford in 2011-12. His research interests involve applications of synthesis to materials science and biology. He has made extensive contributions in the area of light emitting and photovoltaic devices, and co-founded Cambridge Display Technology to exploit the technology. In May, 2000 he was elected FRS. He was elected FAA in March 2006 and FTSE in November 2006. He is the immediate past-President of the Australian Academy of Science. From 2000-2003 he was Chairman of the Editorial Board of Chemical Communications and he was an Associate Editor of Organic Letters from April 2006 to August 2018.