P.A. Gale, Prof
Research interests
Philip A. Gale is a Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry. Phil
received his BA (Hons) in 1992 and his MA and DPhil in 1995 in
Chemistry from the University of Oxford. He then took up a
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at
Austin. He returned to Oxford in 1997 as a Royal Society University
Research Fellow and moved the fellowship in 1999 to the University
of Southampton where he also held a Lectureship. Phil was promoted
to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2005 and to a Personal Chair
in Supramolecular Chemistry in 2007. From 2010 to 2016 Phil served
as Head of Chemistry at Southampton and Chair of the UK EPSRC
National Crystallography Service.
In January 2017 he moved to the University of Sydney to take up the
position of Professor of Chemistry and Head of the School of
Chemistry and in 2020 Phil took on the role of Associate Dean
(International). In April 2022, Phil became interim Dean of Science
serving until January 2023. In February 2023 Phil moved to the
University of Technology Sydney as Deputy Dean of Science serving
in this role until November 2025. In January 2026 he will take up
the position of Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry at the
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of
Groningen.
Phil is a supramolecular chemist with particular interests in the
molecular recognition, sensing and transmembrane transport of
anions. His work in this area is highly cited with an h-index of 87
(Web of Science) and over 30000 citations. He has won a number of
awards including the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan medal
and prize (2005), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
(2013), the RSC Supramolecular Chemistry Award (2014) and the 2018
Izatt Christensen Award in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular
Chemistry. He received a DSc from the University of Oxford in
2014.
Phil is the editor-in-chief of Coordination Chemistry Reviews and
serves on the advisory boards of Chem, Chemical Science, Chemical
Society Reviews and Trends in Chemistry. He was a member of the
EPSRC College during his time in UK and served on the ANR
Laboratories of Excellence Jury (France) 2011-2018 and the European
Research Council Consolidator Grant Panel 2013-2019.
Phil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chartered
Chemist (UK), a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
and Chartered Chemist (Aus), a Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.