Simon Lewis was born in London in 1978. Aged 18 he lived for a year in Austria, where he worked for Novartis (then Sandoz). He returned to the UK to study chemistry at Imperial College London, working for a short period at Syngenta in Bracknell and gaining an MSci in chemistry. After some months spent working for GlaxoSmithKline in Dartford, he returned to Imperial to study for his Ph.D. with Prof. Donald Craig. After gaining his Ph.D. in 2006, Simon moved to the USA to work for Prof. Andrew G. Myers at Harvard University. In 2008 he returned to the UK to take up an independent position at the University of Bath. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in 2014, to Reader in 2022, and to full Professor of organic chemistry in 2023.
In 2013, he was awarded the University of Bath “John Willis Award” for dedication to the academic and personal lives of students combined with a significant contribution to teaching and accomplishment in research. In 2021 he was awarded the University of Bath “Excellence in Doctoral Supervision Award“.
Simon Lewis Research Group 