Bob Hay Lectureship

The prestigious Bob Hay Award Lecture is given annually by a chemist within 15 years of the completion of their PhD working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in its widest sense. The award is made in memory of Professor Bob Hay, one of the pioneers of macrocyclic chemistry in the UK. The lecture is given at the MASC Interest Group meeting, which is held annually in December. From 2024 the award is given for “exceptional research contributions to macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in the broadest sense and/or exceptional service to the macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry community.”

The 2025 Bob Hay Lecture is to be given by Prof Paul McGonigal, from the University of Oxford, “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials”. This will take place at the MASC annual meeting, held at the Open University, Milton Keynes, on the 15th and 16th December, 2025.

Past Bob Hay Lecturers:

• 2024 – Prof Emily Draper (Glasgow)
• 2023 – Dr Stephen Butler (Loughborough)
• 2022 – Prof. Jen Hiscock (Kent)
• 2021 – Prof. Guillaume De Bo (Manchester)
• 2020 – Prof. Ross Forgan (Glasgow)
• 2019 – Prof. Kim Jelfs (Imperial)
• 2018 – Prof. Rachel O’Reilly (Birmingham)
• 2017 – Prof. Scott Cockroft (Edinburgh)
• 2016 – Prof. Steve Goldup (Southampton)
• 2015 – Prof. Dave Adams (Liverpool)
• 2014 – Prof. Oren Scherman (Cambridge)
• 2013 – Prof. Jonathan R Nitschke (Cambridge)
• 2012 – Prof. Andrew J Wilson (Leeds)
• 2011 – Prof. Lee Cronin (Glasgow)
• 2010 – Prof. David Smith (York)
• 2009 – Prof. Stephen Faulkner (Oxford)
• 2008 – Prof. Jonathan W Steed (Durham)
• 2007 – Prof. James H R Tucker (Birmingham)
• 2006 – Prof. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson (Trinity College Dublin)
• 2005 – Prof. Neil R Champness (Nottingham)
• 2004 – Prof. Philip A Gale (Southampton)
• 2003 – Prof. Harry L Anderson (Oxford)
• 2002 – Prof. Michael J Hannon (Birmingham)
• 2001 – Prof. Michael D Ward (Sheffield)