Greg Scholes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gregory D. Scholes |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Photosynthesis Quantum biology[1] |
| Institutions | Princeton University University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Electronic interactions & interchromophore energy transfer (1994) |
| Website | chemistry |
Gregory D. Scholes is an Australian physical chemist who is the William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.
Education
Scholes obtained his BSc. (in 1990) and PhD (in 1994) at the University of Melbourne, the latter of which was obtained while working in the group of Ken Ghiggino.[2]
Career and research
From 1995 to 1997, Scholes was a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London, working in the group of David Phillips.[3] He then undertook further postdoctoral research in the group of Graham R. Fleming. Scholes started his independent career at the University of Toronto, where he was made an assistant professor in 2000, an associate professor in 2005 and professor in 2010. He was the D.J. LeRoy Distinguished Professor from 2011 to 2014. In 2014 he moved to Princeton University, where he is currently the William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry.[4]
Scholes has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters since 2019.[4] Scholes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[5]
Scholes' research interests are in photosynthesis and quantum biology.[6][7]
Awards and honours
- 2007: Royal Society of Canada - Rutherford Memorial Medal
- 2009: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2012: RSC Bourke Award
- 2019: Fellow of the Royal Society (London)
References
- Gregory D. Scholes publications indexed by Google Scholar
- "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
- "Greg Scholes Bio". scholes.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
- "Editor-in-Chief". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
- Anon (2015). "Royal Society Elections". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06.
- Anon (2019). "Professor Gregory Scholes FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
- Collini, Elisabetta; Wong, Cathy Y.; Wilk, Krystyna E.; Curmi, Paul M. G.; Brumer, Paul; Scholes, Gregory D. (2010). "Coherently wired light-harvesting in photosynthetic marine algae at ambient temperature". Nature. 463 (7281): 644–647. Bibcode:2010Natur.463..644C. doi:10.1038/nature08811. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 20130647. S2CID 4369439.
