Lloyd-Jones received a Bachelor of Science degree from Huddersfield Polytechnic in 1989, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1992.[1] He was a Royal Society Western European postdoctoral research fellow at Basel University from 1993 to 1995 with Professor Andreas Pfaltz. He joined the University of Bristol as a lecturer in 1996, before being promoted to reader in 2000, professor in 2003 and Head of Organic and Biological Chemistry in 2012.[7][8] In 2013, he moved to the University of Edinburgh to take up the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry.[8]
Lloyd-Jones's work has been recognised by awards such as the RSC's Hickinbottom Fellowship (2000),[9] the German Chemical Society's Liebig Lectureship (2003),[10] the RSC Corday–Morgan Medal (2003),[11] the RSC Organic Reaction Mechanisms Prize (2007), the GSK/AZ/Pfizer/Syngenta UK Prize for Process Chemistry Research (2010), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2008–2013) and the RSC Physical Organic Chemistry Medal and Ingold Lectureship (2013). Professor Lloyd-Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013[12] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015.[13]
