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We are delighted to welcome Professor Paul Wilson, University of Warwick, as an Associate Editor!

Paul Wilson is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. He studied chemistry at the University of Bristol (MSci, 1st Class, 2006) before completing a PhD in organic chemistry (Warwick, 2010). Having previously held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (Warwick, 2016—2019), he currently holds a Royal Society Tata University Research Fellowship until the end of 2026.

His URF is focussed on developing platforms for nanoscale synthesis and nanofabrication, through combining the capabilities of scanning electrochemical probe microscopy techniques with electrochemically-mediated organic, macromolecular and supramolecular chemistry. More broadly, the team are interested in developing new methodologies and technologies that can enable the preparation of synthetic and biological (nano)materials with an optimum level of compositional, architectural, topological and functional control. They are also interested in applying the methods, techniques and materials developed to help solve long-term and emerging problems that impact global economic and societal development such as nanotechnology, defense, healthcare technologies and sustainability.

Paul is an advocate for UK polymer science and engages in the (inter)national polymer community through an active role on the MacroGroup UK committee, which has followed a prior appointment as treasurer of the Recent Appointees in Polymer Science group.

Discover some of Paul’s publications:

Organic Arsenicals As Efficient and Highly Specific Linkers for Protein/Peptide–Polymer Conjugation
Paul Wilson, Athina Anastasaki, Matthew R. Owen, Kristian Kempe, David M. Haddleton, Sarah K. Mann, Angus P. R. Johnston, John F. Quinn, Michael R. Whittaker, Philip J. Hogg and Thomas P. Davis
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015; 137, 4215–4222

A Tunable Hydrogel Platform Based on Platinum-Containing Polymeric Arsenicals
Alexandros Magiakos, Evelina Liarou, Spyridon Efstathiou, Andrea Dsouza, Chrystala Constantinidou, Marc Walker, Constantinos Methenitis and Paul Wilson
Chem. Mater., 2025; 37, 3733–3746

Localised polymerisation of acrylamide using single-barrel scanning electrochemical cell microscopy
Mahir Mohammed, Bryn A. Jones, Evelina Liarou and Paul Wilson
Chem. Commun., 2023; 59, 10992–10995

Aqueous electrochemically-triggered atom transfer radical polymerization
Boyu Zhao, Fred Pashley-Johnson, Bryn A. Jones and Paul Wilson
Chem. Sci., 2022; 13, 5741–5749

Plug-and-play aqueous electrochemical atom transfer radical polymerization
Boyu Zhao, Mahir Mohammed, Bryn A. Jones and Paul Wilson
Chem. Commun., 2021; 57, 3897–3900

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