Douglas Philp FRSE (born 31 December 1967) is a Scottish chemist who is currently Professor in Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. [1] He was previously a Reader in Physical Organic Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. [1]
Philp graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a BSc in Chemistry in 1989 and completed his PhD in 1992 at the University of Birmingham with a thesis entitled Self-Assembly in Chemical Systems. [1]
He was awarded the Saltire Society Scottish Science Award in 2005 and the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award in 2009. [1] He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021. [2]
Philp has an h-index of 48 according to Google Scholar. [3]

Sir James Colquhoun Irvine KBE JP PhD (Leipzig) DL DSc BSc FRS FRSE FEIS was a British organic chemist and Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1921 until his death. As a research chemist, Irvine worked on the application of methylation techniques to carbohydrates, and isolated the first methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose.
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Sharon Elizabeth Marie Ashbrook is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. Her research is focused on the application of multinuclear solid-state NMR spectroscopy techniques as well as the combination of these techniques with first-principles calculations to investigate structure, order and dynamics of solid state materials.
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Stephen Terrence Buckland is a British statistician and professor at the University of St Andrews. He is best known for his work on distance sampling, a widely used technique for estimating the size of animal populations. He has also made significant contributions in the following areas: bootstrap resampling methods; modelling the dynamics of wild animal populations and measuring biodiversity.
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