Mark Fielding
Associate Principal Scientist
AstraZeneca
Austria
Biography
Mark did his first degree in Chemistry at Leicester University in 1992, where he spent his industrial placement year at Merck, Sharpe & Dohme as a medicinal chemist. After qualifying with a first class honours degree, he started working on the development of optical brightening agents at Hickson & Welch fine chemicals in 1996. Mark began his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Leeds in 1997, where he worked on tandem palladium catalysed-cycloaddition reactions. His PhD was sponsored by Zeneca agrochemicals, and he spent a short period of time at their research centre, Jealott’s Hill.
Research Interest
Chemistry
