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Gillian Reid

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

Gillian Reid FRSC (born 1964) is a British chemist who is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and former 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-elect of the Royal Society of Chemistry, becoming President in 2022.

Early life and education

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Reid became interested in chemistry whilst 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, and a 2 year postdoctoral research position in Edinburgh, Reid moved to a lectureship in the University of Southampton.[citation needed]

Research and career

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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, thermoelectric generators and two-dimensional materials. The reagents were used to deposit a wide variety of thin films including highly pure germanium telluride, molybdenum disulphide and tungsten disulphide.[7][8][9][10]

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 co-led the Royal Society Summer Science exhibit Taking Technology Smaller, which introduced the public to electrochemistry as a means to build nanoscale electronic devices.[11]

Awards and honours

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Selected publications

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  • 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. Bibcode:2009AngCh.121.5254C. doi:10.1002/ange.200901247. PMID 19504510.

Personal life

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Reid has two children.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Reid, Gillian; University of Edinburgh (1989). Studies on transition metal macrocyclic complexes. hdl:1842/12853. OCLC 1064872347.
  2. ^ a b c d e "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. Archived from the original on 2020-06-29. 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. ^ a b 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. ^ Noori, Y J; Thomas, S; Ramadan, S; Greenacre, V K; Abdelazim, N M; Han, Y; Zhang, J; Beanland, R; Hector, A L; Klein, N; Reid, G; Bartlett, P N; de Groot, C H (2022-01-01). "Electrodeposited WS 2 monolayers on patterned graphene". 2D Materials. 9 (1): 015025. arXiv:2109.00083. Bibcode:2022TDM.....9a5025N. doi:10.1088/2053-1583/ac3dd6. ISSN 2053-1583. S2CID 244693600.
  9. ^ Noori, Yasir J.; Thomas, Shibin; Ramadan, Sami; Smith, Danielle E.; Greenacre, Vicki K.; Abdelazim, Nema; Han, Yisong; Beanland, Richard; Hector, Andrew L.; Klein, Norbert; Reid, Gillian; Bartlett, Philip N.; Kees de Groot, C. H. (2020-11-04). "Large-Area Electrodeposition of Few-Layer MoS 2 on Graphene for 2D Material Heterostructures". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12 (44): 49786–49794. arXiv:2005.08616. doi:10.1021/acsami.0c14777. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 33079533. S2CID 224828493.
  10. ^ Abdelazim, Nema M.; Noori, Yasir J.; Thomas, Shibin; Greenacre, Victoria K.; Han, Yisong; Smith, Danielle E.; Piana, Giacomo; Zhelev, Nikolay; Hector, Andrew L.; Beanland, Richard; Reid, Gillian; Bartlett, Philip N.; Groot, Cornelis H. (September 2021). "Lateral Growth of MoS 2 2D Material Semiconductors Over an Insulator Via Electrodeposition". Advanced Electronic Materials. 7 (9): 2100419. doi:10.1002/aelm.202100419. ISSN 2199-160X. S2CID 232478824.
  11. ^ "Royal Society invitation for scientists at Southampton who are Taking Technology Smaller | Chemistry | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  12. ^ "Professor Gill Reid | Chemistry | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  13. ^ "Gill Reid wins presidential election". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  14. ^ "Gill Reid elected to become president of the Royal Society of Chemistry | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  15. ^ Thomas, James (2022-03-22). "Academic and artistic minds honoured as RSE Fellows". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
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