Dr Marc Reid

U K R I Future Leaders Fellow

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Personal statement

Marc was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland.

He completed his Masters in Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in 2011. In 2015, he completed his Carnegie Trust-sponsored PhD in Chemistry at Strathclyde. From 2015-16, Marc was a postdoctoral research associate with at the University of Edinburgh. During that time, he was inducted into the SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry programme.

In 2016, Marc won the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and rejoined the Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry at Strathclyde from 2017-20. This position was supported by GlaxoSmithKline, and he was thus the first Strathclyde-GSK Early Career Academic. In 2018, Marc was selected to participate in the Scottish Crucible leadership program, the Merck Innovation Cupand was part of the Converge Challenge Entrepreneurship Competition Top 30. In 2020 Marc became a CPACT-supported Research Fellow and then Lecturer for Innovation in Education at the University of Bristol.

Most recently, Marc was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, joining the Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry at Strathclyde.

He holds a visiting lectureship at the University of Bristol, and a visiting Enterprise Fellowship in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde.

His interests include physical organic chemistry, computer vision, cheminformatics, virtual reality, process safety, and the psychology of the imposter phenomenon.

He is the author of the book You Are (Not) a Fraud: A Scientist's Guide to the Imposter Phenomenon.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-marc-reid-18974554/

Website: www.dr-marc-reid.com

Expertise

Has expertise in:

    Expertise

    • Chemical Kinetics
    • Computer Vision
    • Cheminformatics
    • Computational Chemistry
    • Synthetic Chemistry

     

    Facilities 

    • Synthetic chemistry laboratory.
    • 3D printing and small-scale electronics.
    • Computer vision software.
    • Multiple machine vision cameras.
    • Supercomputer access (local and via ArCHIE WeSt).
    • Statistical modeling and computer programming tools.

     

Prizes and awards

IChem Hanson Medal
Recipient
2021
Scottish Crucible 2018 - selected participant
Recipient
2018
Prof. Patrick D. Ritchie Prize for Best PhD Thesis in 2014/15
Recipient
2017
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
Recipient
2016
SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry
Recipient
2016
Gavin Forsyth Award for Most Meritorious PhD Student at 2nd Year stage
Recipient
2015

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Qualifications

Academic Qualifications

  • NEBOSH Certificate in Process Safety Management (RRC International, 2019).
  • PhD in Chemistry (University of Strathclyde, 2015).
  • MSci Chemistry (University of Strathclyde, 2011).

 

Professional Bodies

  • Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC).
  • Scotland Group committee member for the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

 

Publications

Computer vision for non-contact monitoring of catalyst degradation and product formation kinetics
Yan Chunhui, Cowie Megan, Howcutt Calum, Wheelhouse Katherine M P, Hodnett Neil S, Kollie Martin, Gildea Martin, Goodfellow Martin H, Reid Marc
Chemical Science (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc05702f
Computer vision for kinetic analysis of lab- and process-scale mixing phenomena
Barrington Henry, Dickinson Alan, McGuire Jake, Yan Chunhui, Reid Marc
Organic Process Research and Development Vol 26, pp. 3073-3088 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.2c00216
Computer vision for understanding catalyst degradation kinetics
Yan Chunhui, Cowie Megan, Howcutt Calum, Wheelhouse Katherine, Hodnett Neil, Kollie Martin, Gildea Martin, Goodfellow Martin H, Reid Marc
(2022)
https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-n0wf3
3-Bromo-N,N,N-trimethylanilinium iodide (1:1)
Reid Marc
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (2022) (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1002/047084289X.rn02439
Electrochemical synthesis of isoxazolines : method and mechanism
Holman Samuel D L, Wills Alfie G, Fazakerley Neal J, Poole Darren L, Coe Diane M, Berlouis Leonard, Reid Marc
Chemistry - A European Journal Vol 28 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202103728
Trialkylammonium salt degradation : implications for methylation and cross-coupling
Washington Jack B, Assante Michele, Yan Chunhui, McKinney David, Juba Vanessa, Leach Andrew G, Baillie Sharon E, Reid Marc
Chemical Science Vol 12, pp. 6949-6963 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC00757B

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Teaching

Marc is as passionate about teaching as research. Following timeless examples set by accomplished teachers such as Richard Feynman, Marc enjoys public speaking and exploring new ways to teach old concepts.

 

During his PhD and postdoc, Marc's teaching experience spanned undergraduate, masters, PhD, and postdoc supervision.

 

In his current post, Marc teaches The Practice & Pitfalls of Studying Organic Reaction Mechanisms - a self-made physical organic chemistry video lecture series taught to ScotCHEM and GSK postgraduates. The series now openly available on YouTube. Marc also teaches on the 3rd Year undergraduate Organic Chemistry module, and guest lectures in Dr Lucrezia Casulli's Mindset Lab.

Research interests

Our emerging multidisciplinary research team focuses on the data-driven understanding of process chemistry. We combine structured experimental data with computational modeling and informatics to build a predicitive overview of industrially-relevant chemical processes.

 

Current interests include:

 

  • Computer vision in chemical kinetics.
  • Process safety training technologies.
  • Industry-friendly reagent design. 

Projects

DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Fyfe, Calum
Reid, Marc (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator) Fyfe, Calum (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Taylor, Madeleine
Palmer, David (Principal Investigator) Reid, Marc (Co-investigator) Taylor, Madeleine (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
Computer Vision for Analytical Chemistry (CVAC): Scalable Productivity for Chemical Manufacturing- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Reid, Marc (Fellow)
01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Understanding the Reliability and Transferability of Machine Learning
Nelson, David (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator) Reid, Marc (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018 | Mulrainey, Paul
Kerr, William (Principal Investigator) Reid, Marc (Co-investigator) Tuttle, Tell (Co-investigator) Mulrainey, Paul (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
RSC Researcher Mobility Grant
Reid, Marc (Principal Investigator)
£2,300 funding for visit to Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to conduct collaborative research in the area of cheminformatics.

This project was a collaboration between the Universities of Strathclyde, Edinburgh, and LJMU
10-Jan-2017 - 17-Jan-2017

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