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I studied chemistry at the University of Oxford where I gained an MChem (2003) and then DPhil (2007), working with Professor Steve Davies in the area of β-amino acid organocatalysis. I have been teaching organic chemistry at Oxford since 2005.

Junior Research Fellowship at St. Catherine’s ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ 2007–2010
Stipendiary Lectureship at St. Catherine’s ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ since 2007
Research Fellowship in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford since 2010
Fellowship by Special Election at St. Catherine’s ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ since 2010
Stipendiary Lectureship at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ since 2017

Research Interests

Synthetic organic chemistry
Novel asymmetric transformations
Total synthesis of natural products

Selected Recent Publications

• Stereoselective ammonium-directed epoxidation in the asymmetric syntheses of dihydroconduramines (−)-A-2, (−)-B-2, (−)-C-3 and (+)-F-3, Da Silva Pinto, S.; Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. Synthesis 2018, 50, 64.
• Asymmetric synthesis of the tetraponerine alkaloids, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Houlsby, I. T. T.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 6689.
• (−)-Pseudodistomin E: first asymmetric synthesis and absolute configuration assignment, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E.; Zimmer, D. Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 1638.
• Asymmetric syntheses of (–)-ADMJ and (+)-ADANJ: 2-deoxy-2-amino analogues of (–)-1-deoxymannojirimycin and (+)-1-deoxyallonojirimycin, Davies, S. G.; Figuccia A. L. A.; Fletcher, A. M.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 6481. 
• Asymmetric syntheses of (+)-preussin B, the C(2)-epimer of (–)-preussin B, and 3-deoxy-(+)-preussin B, Buchman, M.; Csatayová, K.; Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Houlsby, I. T. T.; Roberts, P. M.; Rowe, S.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 4907.
• Asymmetric synthesis of substituted anti-β-fluorophenylalanines, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Frost, A. B.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 2254.
• Asymmetric syntheses of nakinadine D, nakinadine E and nakinadine F: confirmation of their relative (RS,SR)-configurations and proposal of their absolute (2S,3R)-configurations, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Shah, R. S.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 4017.