Simon Gibbons is Visiting Professor of Phytochemistry at the Centre for Natural Products Discovery at Liverpool John Moores University.
He was the 2005 recipient of the Phytochemical Society of Europe Award for Phytochemistry, the 2012 Pharmanex Prize and was a Fellow of The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health.
[1] His research interests are on the isolation and structure elucidation of antiinfective natural products from plants and drugs of abuse.
He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Phytochemistry Letters,[2] and is currently Co-Editor of the book series Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products (“Zechmeister”; Springer Verlag, Vienna).
He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Phytochemistry Reviews, Phytochemical Analysis, Phytotherapy Research,[3] Fitoterapia, Pharmaceutica Scientia and Chinese Journal of Natural Medicine.