
Dr. Ross S. Forgan
- FRSC FRSE
- Professor of Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry
- Head of the Functional Molecules and Assemblies Research Grouping
- Co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity Led, Mission-Driven Research (DiveIn)
- Chair of the RSC Porous Materials Interest Group
- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow
Prof Ross Forgan is Professor of Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research into the application of metal-organic frameworks in biomimetic catalysis and nanoscale drug delivery is underpinned by fundamental studies into molecular recognition and self-assembly processes inside nanoporous materials.
He graduated with a PhD in supramolecular inorganic chemistry, under the supervision of Prof Peter Tasker, from the University of Edinburgh in 2008. A three-year postdoctoral position (2008-2011) with Nobel Laureate Prof Sir J Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern University, USA, saw him research organic interlocked molecules, chemical topology and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). He returned to Scotland in 2011 as a senior research fellow in Prof Lee Cronin’s group at the University of Glasgow, investigating hybrid materials and applications of 3D-printing. After 11 months, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2012-2021) to begin his independent academic career, with subsequent promotions to Reader in 2016 and Professor in 2019.
To date Forgan has published 97 papers and 2 patents and has given many invited seminars and lectures at conferences and universities around the world. In 2016 he won a highly prestigious ERC Starting Grant, while he was awarded the Sessler Early Career Researcher Prize in 2018, the RSC Bob Hay Lectureship in 2020, and the RSC Peter Day Memorial Prize in 2024. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, where he is President of its Porous Materials Interest Group. He is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity Led, Mission-Driven Research.
He currently holds the Chair of the RSC Porous Materials Interest Group Committee and is the Head of the Functional Molecules and Assemblies Research Grouping. He also acts a s a Co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity Led, Mission-Driven Research (DiveIn).