The Ball Research Laboratory
Liam Ball
Professor of Organic Chemistry
2025-date Professor, University of Bristol
2024-2025 Professor, University of Nottingham
2021-2024 Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
2015-2021 Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
2014-2015 PDRA with Prof. G. C. Lloyd-Jones FRS, University of Edinburgh
2009-2014 PhD with Dr C. A. Russell and Prof. G. C. Lloyd-Jones FRS, University of Bristol
2005-2009 MSci (Chemistry, first class Hons.), University of Bristol​
Career Summary
Selected Awards
2025 Blavatnik Awards UK Laureate in Chemistry
2024 RSC Hickinbottom Prize
2024 RSC/BMOS Early Career Investigator Award
2024 RSC Inorganic Reactions and Mechanisms Early Career Award
2022 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
2021 Visiting Professorship, University of Toronto
2021 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2020 SCS Junior Scientists Participation Fellowship (Bürgenstock Stereochemistry Conference)
2018 RSC-BMCS Mobility Fellowship (visiting scientist at Eli Lilly)
2014 Faculty of Science Research Thesis Prize (University of Bristol)
2014 Faculty of Science Commendation for Excellence in a PhD Thesis (University of Bristol)
2012 Syngenta Scholarship in Organic Chemistry
2010 SCI Messel and Gray Scholarship
2009 Salters’ Graduate Prize
2009 W E Garner Prize (University of Bristol)
2009 Mike Rothwell Prize (University of Bristol)
2009 DSM Prize (University of Bristol)
2007 Malkin Prize (University of Bristol)
2007 Shell Library Project Prize (University of Bristol)
2006 Pfizer Chemistry Bursary
2006 W J Dunning Prize (University of Bristol)
2005 AstraZeneca Chemistry Bursary
Invited Lectures
2025 Gordon Stone Symposium (Bristol, UK)
2025 Durham University (Durham, UK)
2025 28th Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry (University of Cambridge, UK)
2025 26th Lakeland Symposium (Grasmere, UK)
2025 University of Southampton (Southampton, UK)
2025 RSC Organic Division Midlands Regional Meeting (Nottingham, UK)
2025 6th Reaction Monitoring Symposium (University of Bath, UK)
2025 St Andrews University (St Andrews, UK)
2025 Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh, UK)
2025 Blavatnik Awards Symposium (Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK)
2025 UK Blavatnik Awards Ceremony (Kensington Palace, London, UK)
2024 12th Singapore International Chemistry Conference (Singapore)
2024 University of Loughborough (Loughborough, UK)
2024 Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham, UK)
2024 Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis (Bento Gonçalves, Brazil)
2024 ACS Fall Meeting (Denver, USA)
2024 9th EUChemS Chemistry Conference (Dublin, Ireland)
2024 Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference (York, UK)
2024 University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
2023 University of Bristol (Bristol, UK)
2023 University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2023 University of Leicester (Leicester, UK)
2023 International Symposium of Synthesis and Catalysis 2023 (Evora, Portugal)
2023 Sygnature Discovery (Nottingham, UK)
2023 AstraZeneca (Macclesfield, UK)
2023 University of Bath (Bath, UK)
2023 University of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
2023 Nottingham Sustainable CDT Showcase (Nottingham, UK)
2023 Evotec (Abingdon, UK)
2023 Pfizer (Sandwich, UK)
2022 Charnwood Molecular (Loughborough, UK)
2022 University of Manchester (Manchester, UK)
2022 University of Warwick (Warwick, UK)
2021 ACS Fall Meeting (Atlanta, USA)
2021 University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
2021 Université du Québec à Montréal (Montréal, Canada)
2021 University of St Andrews (St Andrews, UK)
2019 University of Sussex (Brighton, UK)
2019 Pfizer (Sandwich, UK)
2019 Solvay (Oldbury, UK)
2019 Eli Lilly (Windlesham, UK)
2019 Syngenta (Jealott's Hill, UK)
2019 Chemical Synthesis CDT Summer Conference (Bristol, UK)
2019 Young Chemists Conference, Imperial College (London, UK)
2018 Copenhagen University (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2018 Denmark Technical University (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2018 Joseph Banks Symposium of Organic and Biological Chemistry (Lincoln, UK)
2018 Dial-a-Molecule Annual Meeting (London, UK)
2018 AstraZeneca (Cambridge, UK)
2017 Eli Lilly (Windlesham, UK)
2017 Dial-a-Molecule Annual Meeting (Liverpool, UK)
2017 Dial-a-Molecule ECR Meeting (Liverpool, UK)
2016 23rd Annual SCI Review Meeting (London, UK)
2016 Sustainable Chemistry Annual Conference (Nottingham, UK)
2015 AstraZeneca (Macclesfield, UK)
2015 Syngenta (Jealott's Hill, UK)
2015 Sustainable Chemistry Annual Conference (Nottingham, UK)
2015 Chemical Synthesis CDT Summer Conference (Bristol, UK)
2013 Inorganic and Materials Final Year Presentation (Bristol, UK)
2012 Postgraduate Scholarship Awards Meeting (Syngenta, UK)
2012 Gordon Stone Symposium (Bristol, UK)
2012 SCI College of Scholars: Science and Careers (London, UK)
2011 SCI Regional Meeting of the College of Scholars (York, UK)
2011 Organic Chemistry Postgraduate Prize Day (Lilly, UK)