Rate My Professor Andrew Dove

Professor Andrew Dove is Professor of Sustainable Polymer Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, where he joined in January 2018 to lead the Dove Research Group, a multinational team addressing challenges in polymer and materials science. He obtained his MChem (Hons) from the University of York in 1999 and his PhD from Imperial College London under the supervision of Professor Vernon C. Gibson FRS, focusing on metal catalysed co-ordination insertion polymerisation. Dove conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Robert M. Waymouth at Stanford University, California, and as a CPIMA postdoctoral fellow at IBM, San Jose, under Dr James L. Hedrick and Professor Waymouth. He was awarded an RCUK Fellowship in Nanoscience in September 2005, advancing to Assistant Professor in 2006, Associate Professor in 2009, and Full Professor in June 2014. His accolades include the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize (2022), Fellow of the American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (2022), MacroGroup UK Medal (2019), RSC Emerging Technologies Award (2018), Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Researcher Award (2016), ERC Consolidator Grant (2016), RSC Gibson-Fawcett Award (2014), and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013). Dove serves on the editorial boards of Biomacromolecules, Macromolecules, ACS Macro Letters, and Biomaterials Science, and has been a review editor for Frontiers and associate editor for Green Materials.