Biography
Marc grew up in Tea Tree Gully in Adelaide (South Australia) and did his undergraduate at the University of Adelaide majoring chemistry and genetics. After obtaining his Honours degree in 1994 with Dr. George Gream, investigating solvolysis routes to longifolene, he stayed at University of Adelaide for his postgraduate studies and obtained his PhD in chemistry in mid-1998 with Prof. Stephen F. Lincoln and A/Prof. A. David Ward on a thesis entitled ‘Synthesis and Physical Chemistry of Zinquin analogues’. In 1998, he moved to the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Fellow working on streptonigrin analogues in the group Prof. Margaret M. Harding, and then returned to the University of Adelaide in 2000 to work on the chemistry of endoperoxides with Prof. Dennis K. Taylor. In 2002 he relocated to the United Kingdom, taking up a PDRA position with Prof. J. Stephen Clark at the University of Nottingham where he completed the total synthesis of the F-J fragment of the polycyclic ether gambieric acid A. In late 2004 he joined Evotec as a medicinal Senior Scientist, but returned to academia in May 2006 where he took up a PDRA position with Prof. Christopher J. Moody at the University of Nottingham where he worked on synthetic routes to the antibiotic nosiheptide. In September 2008 he was appointed to his first independent academic position as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Loughborough, and he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015.
