Professor AndrÉ Cobb, FHEA FRSC

Andre grew up in the East End of London, where he began his academic journey by studying Chemistry at King's College London, during which he spent a year in industry at ICI. He then moved to UCL for his PhD where he worked with Professor Charles Marson on organozinc mediated asymmetric processes. After this he went to Cambridge for postdoctoral studies with Professor Florian Hollfelder in the Department of Biochemistry to work on synthetic enzymes (synzymes). A second postdoc followed in the Chemistry Department with Professor Steven V. Ley CBE FRS where he  developed anti-amyloidosis compounds in collaboration with Professor Sir Mark B. Pepys, as well as working on his life-long passion of organocatalysis.

André's first academic position was at the University of Reading, where he stayed until moving back to his alma mater at King's College London in 2016. His group's major interest is now in the synthesis of foldamers and their application towards catalysis, medicinal chemistry and the engineering of biological systems.