The Ball Research Group
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK
Contact Details
Prof. Liam T. Ball
School of Chemistry
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
e-mail: liam.ball@nottingham.ac.uk
tel.: +44 (0)1157 486 232
Career Summary
2024 Professor of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK
2021 Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of
Nottingham, UK
2021 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK
2015 Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of
Nottingham, UK
2014-2015 Post-doctoral research assistant with Prof. Guy C.
Lloyd-Jones FRS FRSE, University of Edinburgh, UK
2009-2014 PhD with Dr Chris A. Russell and Prof. Guy C. Lloyd-
Jones FRS FRSE, University of Bristol, UK
2005-2009 MSci (Chemistry, first class Hons.), University of
Bristol, UK
Selected Awards
2024 RSC Hickinbottom Prize
2024 RSC/BMOS Early Career Investigator Award
2024 RSC Inorganic Reactions and Mechanisms Early Career
Award (Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Discussion Group)
2022 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
2021 Visiting Professorship, University of Toronto
2021 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
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)
Invited Lectures
2025 28th International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic
Chemistry (University of Cambridge, UK)
2025 26th Lakeland Symposium (Grasmere, UK)
2025 RSC Organic Division Midlands Regional Meeting
(Nottingham, UK)
2025 6th Reaction Monitoring Symposium (University of Bath, 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)
