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​David John Procter was born in Leyland in Lancashire, England. He obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the University of Leeds in 1992 and his PhD in 1995 working with Professor Christopher Rayner on organosulfur and selenium chemistry. He then spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor Robert Holton at Florida State University in Tallahassee, USA working on the synthesis of analogues of the anticancer agent Taxol. In late 1997 he took up a Lectureship at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in February 2004. In September 2004, he moved to a Readership at the University of Manchester. David was promoted to Professor in October 2008.
Highlights
  • 2020 RSC Charles Rees Award
  • 2020 Batsheva De Rothschild Fellowship, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • 2015-2020 EPSRC Established Career Fellowship
  • 2020 to date - Head of Department, Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester
  • 2011-2014 - Head of Organic Chemistry, University of Manchester
  • 2014 Bader Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (Highlight in Angewandte: AUG 2014; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201407224)
  • 2014 Liebig Lectureship from the German Chemical Society (Highlight in Angewandte: DEC 2014; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410394)
  • 2013-2014 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
  • Author profile in Angewandte: Nov 2016; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610197
  • 2023 Minakem Lectureship, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • 2019 Erdtman Lectureship, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
  • 2019 WuXi AppTec Lectureship, Peking University, Beijing, China (Oct 2019)
  • Czech Chemical Society Lectureship, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (Mar 2019)
  • 2015 RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group, Young Heterocyclic Chemist Award Lecture
  • 2015 Chem. Commun. Lectureship at Gregynog
  • >190 publications
  • >160 Invited presentations (conferences, universities and companies)
  • Invited Visiting Professor, Universität Münster, Germany (July 2010)
  • EPSRC Panel Chair (Mar 2017); EPSRC Panel Chair (Jan 2013); EPSRC Panel Chair (Sept 2011); 
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Lead author, "Organic Synthesis using Samarium Diiodide: A practical guide", RSC, ISBN (print): 978-1-84755-110-8
  • Invited Volume Editor, Science of Synthesis (2010)
  • Invited Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Tetrahedron (2009)
  • 2001 Pfizer Strategic Funding Award​