THE KIMBER RESEARCH GROUP
Welcome to the KIMBER GROUP: A Synthetic Organic Chemistry research group based at the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Loughborough University.
Dr. Marc Kimber BSc (Hons) PhD (Adel.) MRSC FHEA
2015- present Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Loughborough University
2008 - 2015 Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Loughborough University
2007 - 2008 Teaching Fellow, University of Nottingham
2006 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow (Prof. Christopher Moody), University of Nottingham
2004 - 2006 Senior Scientist, Evotec OAI
2002 - 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow (Prof. J. Stephen Clark), University of Nottingham
2000 - 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow (Prof. Dennis K. Taylor), University of Adelaide
1998 - 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow (Prof. Margaret M. Harding), University of Sydney
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1995 - 1998 PhD (Adel.) (A/Prof. A. David Ward and Prof. Stephen F. Lincoln), University of Adelaide
1994 - Honours (Hons) in Organic Chemistry (Dr. George E. Gream), University of Adelaide
1990 - 1993 BSc (Organic Chemistry and Genetics), University of Adelaide
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA); Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC).
Secretary & Treasurer of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group (2022 - 2025)
Committee member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group (2019 - present)
Committee member of the SCI/RSC RETROSYNTHESIS competition (2019 - 2024)
Technical Business Expert (April 2022 - August 2024)
Ex-post evaluation: EU competition enforcement and acquisition of innovative competitors in the pharma sector leading to discontinuation of overlapping drug research and development projects (EU contract COMP/2021/OP/002)
Marc grew up in Tea Tree Gully in Adelaide (South Australia) and attended Rostrevor College, and subsequently did his undergraduate at the University of Adelaide in chemistry and genetics. He stayed at UoA for his postgraduate studies and obtained his PhD in chemistry in mid-1998. He then held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Sydney (Prof. M. M. Harding), Adelaide (Prof. D. K. Taylor) and Nottingham (Prof. J. S. Clark and Prof. C. J. Moody). He was appointed to his first independant academic position as Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Loughborough in September 2008, and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015.