Martin Lear

Martin Lear BSc(hons) PhD FHEA MRSC CChem is an Assoc. Prof. (Reader) and the founding ChemBio Group leader in the School of Chemistry, College of Science and Engineering, and a Professor of the Global Leader Program at Tohoku University, Science and Engineering (Adjunct, April 2015-2020). He has spent over 18 years in Asia (mostly in Japan at Tohoku University, with 8 years tenure at the National University of Singapore) and has co-founded a drug-labelling company to combat drug resistance. To date, he has mentored over 15 PhD, 8 MChem/MSc, and 50 BSc (3rd year) students. His current mission is to advance redox-based catalysis and expedite the hit-to-lead processing of chembio-libraries through a combination of experiment and the computational evolution of the machine perception of molecules, coined Mception.

Department Responsibilities

• Research Leader of the ChemBio-Interface Group of the School of Chemistry
• Organic and ChemBio teaching lead (AY2015, to-date)
• Exams committee chair for School (AY2015, to-date)
• Research Ethics committee chair for School (AY2016, to-date)
• MChem advanced topics module leader (AY2019, to-date)

Subject Specialisms

• From total synthesis to the total machine learning of molecules (Mception)

Qualifications

• PhD - Synthesis & Biological Evaluation of Anticancer Agents - The University of Glasgow 1996
• BSc - Honours (Special) in Chemistry with Computer Applications (MedChem) - The University of Glasgow 1991

Awards

• Associate College Member of EPSRC - EPSRC Associate Peer Review College, UK 2016
• Fellow of HEA - The Higher Education Academy, UK 2016
• ACP Lectureship Award - Asian Core Program on Cutting Edge Organic Chemistry 2010
• CREST Research Fellow - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology 2000
• JSPS Research Fellow - Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science 1997
• Fellow of Wolfson College - The University of Cambridge 1995
• CChem, MRSC - The Royal Society of Chemistry 1995
• PhD Scholarship - The Senate of the University of Glasgow 1994