2022 Foresight Fellow in Molecular Weaving David obtained his MChem degree and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland where he worked on the development of catalytic coordination cages with Dr Paul Lusby. In 2016 he took up a post doctoral position within the group of Prof. David Leigh at the University of Manchester, UK where, in June 2021, he was promoted to Lecturer within the same group. His work focuses on the formation of complex molecular topologies including knots, links and woven materials. His work on the formation of a molecular fabric was shortlisted for the 2021 Times Higher Education Research Project of the Year (STEM) and holds the Guinness World Record for the World’s finest fabric.
