Andy Ashley

Andy is a synthetic chemist with over 20 years of expertise in state-of-the-art chemistry laboratories. He has over 10 years of experience in leading a research group as Senior Lecturer in Catalysis at Imperial College London, and has secured over £1.5 M in funding from research councils and industrial sponsors. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed, high-impact publications in small molecule transformations, including novel chemical methods for the capture and storage of CO2. He is an inventor on several patents, two of which have been commercialised through engagement with a cement company. Andy has also held several prestigious fellowships including a Royal Society URF (Imperial College) and a JRF in the Sciences (Balliol College, University of Oxford). In 2015 he was recognised through the competitive BASF Catalysis Award, which is a prize given at the Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis in Germany where he delivered the keynote lecture to an audience of 450 academics and industrialists.