Andrew Hamilton

Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University

Andrew Hamilton is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. After graduating from Exeter University, he receieved a master's degree from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and conducted post-doctoral research at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Princeton in the early 1980s, before serving as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh from 1988 to 1997. He then joined Yale, where he was Provost from 2004 to 2008, and assumed his current position at Oxford in June 2008.

Hamilton's research has spanned porphoryn, supramolecular, medicinal, bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology. His lab is most noted for the design of barbiturate hosts, farnesyl tranferase inhibitors, protein surface binders, and helix mimetics. He receieved the Arthur C Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society in 1999, and was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Society in 2004.