Vernon C. Gibson
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Early life and education
Gibson was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire and educated at The King's School, Grantham followed by the University of Sheffield where he studied Chemistry and graduated with a First Class Special Honours degree in 1980. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1983 for research supervised by Malcolm L.H. Green.
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Career and research
After his DPhil, Gibson spent two years as a NATO postdoctoral research fellow with John E. Bercaw at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
In 2017, Gibson was appointed Executive Director of the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials and became its Executive Chair in 2021. He was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 2012 to 2016 and Chief Chemist at BP plc from 2008 to 2012. Prior to this he was the Sir Edward Frankland Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College London where, following foundations laid in the Chemistry Department at the University of Durham, he developed an international reputation for his fundamental studies on metal complexes and discoveries of new catalyst systems for the production of commercially relevant polymers.
Personal life
Gibson is married to Sue Gibson (née Thomas). They have two grown-up children.