Dr Marc Reid

Senior Lecturer

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 Cup, and 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.

In 2020, Marc was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, joining the Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry at Strathclyde. In 2024, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

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 haved included 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/

Personal Website: https://www.dr-marc-reid.com

Kineticolor Website: https://www.kineticolor.org

Expertise

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Prize 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

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Publications

Computer vision enables monitoring and kinetic analysis of structurally diverse carbon monoxide surrogates: Donnachie Kristin, Griffin Ciaran, Gray Morven L, McCabe Timothy JD, Reid Marc; Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol 138 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.8888536
When chemistry is too colourful : gamut clipping in 8-bit sRGB risks misinterpretation of camera-based chemical analysis: Fyfe Calum, Yu Shengkai, Reid Marc; Digital Discovery (2026); https://doi.org/10.1039/D6DD00065G
From eyes to cameras to kinetics : computer vision for chemical process monitoring: Barrington Henry, Donnachie Kristin, Fyfe Calum, McCabe Timothy JD, Ward Cameron, Reid Marc; Accounts of Chemical Research Vol 59, pp. 1846-1867 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.6c00137
Letter to the Editor concerning “Comparison of the Effects of Stirring and Standing on Chemical Reactions” by Liu et al.: Barrington Henry, Reid Marc; Synlett Vol 37, pp. 1001-1004 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2788-5075
Salt forms of a thioamide : protonation of 1-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)thiourea: Donnachie Kristin, Gibson Bethany, Kennedy Alan R, MacCall Connor, Reid Marc; Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry Vol 82, pp. 129-137 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053229626001804
Computer vision for mixing analysis : Transforming cameras into quantitative tools for chemical process understanding: Reid Marc; Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry (2025) (2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.apoc.2025.10.002

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Teaching

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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.

He teaches on the Time Series Analysis for Chemists and Python 101 for Chemists modules in the department's Chemistry with Data Science degree stream.

Marc has also taught on the 3^rd Year undergraduate Organic Chemistry module, and guest lectures in Dr Lucrezia Casulli's Mindset Lab.

Research

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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: