Veronique Gouverneur
Véronique Gouverneur obtained a PhD in chemistry at the Université Catholique de Louvain (LLN, Belgium), under the supervision of Professor Léon Ghosez. In 1992, she moved to a postdoctoral position with Professor Richard Lerner at the Scripps Research Institute (California, USA). She took a position of Maître de Conférence at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France); during this period, she worked with Dr Charles Mioskowski and was Associate Member of the “Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires” led by Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. Véronique started her independent research career at the University of Oxford in 1998 in the Department of Chemistry and was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 2008. Since her appointment in Oxford, she holds a tutorial fellowship at Merton College Oxford where she teaches organic chemistry. She has coordinated European ITN projects (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN, RADIOMI and H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, FLUDD), and is currently the holder of an ERC Advanced grant (2019-2024). She is the (co)author of > 200 peer-reviewed publications and 10 patents. Her research has been disseminated at numerous internal conferences, and rewarded by numerous prizes and distinctions including the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2013-2018), the ACS Award for Creative work in Fluorine Chemistry 2015, the RSC Tilden Prize 2016, the Tetrahedron Chair 2016, the Prelog Medal 2019, and the RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award 2019. She was elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) in 2017, and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.