On the11th of July Professor Peter Lay will give a talk in Chemforum titled “Speciation in Vanadium Boinorganic and Medicinal Chemistry”. The event will be held in QA02.2 in Torre de Química, at 12:00.
Professor Lay completed his PhD at the Australian National University (1981), then was a CSIRO postdoctoral fellow (Stanford University & CSIRO), and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Queen Elizabeth II Fellow (Deakin University) before he joined the University of Sydney as a lecturer (1985) where he progressed to a professorship in 1997 and Head of School (2001-2002). He is currently Professor of Chemistry and Academic Director, Sydney Analytical (a very large University Core Research Facility covering Vibrational Spectroscopies and Microscopies, X-ray techniques including diffraction, scattering and spectroscopies, Drug Discovery infrastructure & Magnetic Resonance including NMR and EPR spectroscopies). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and received its highest award in Chemistry, the David Craig Medal in 2013. He has held two ARC Professorial Fellowships (2002-2007, 2009-2013); was awarded the Rennie, Burrows (Inorganic) and H. G. Smith (All Chemistry) Medals of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute of which he is a Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
His research covers a broad range of bioinorganic chemistry (including anti-diabetic and anti-cancer drug design), synchrotron structural and spectroscopic techniques, and medical applications of biospectroscopies and microscopies, with ~280 book chapters and refereed papers and a H index of 56 on the Web of Science.
