Steve’s research interests are varied and span many disciplines including new synthetic methodologies, the total synthesis of natural products and the development of enabling technologies for chemical synthesis especially in the area of flow chemistry technologies. He has published over 890 papers and has gained 50 major awards including recently the ACS Arthur C. Cope Award, the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry (Elsevier); Heinrich Wieland Prize (Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany); The Paracelsus Prize (Swiss Chemical Society); The Royal Medal (The Royal Society, London), The Longstaff Prize (The Royal Society of Chemistry) and the IUPAC Thales-Nano Prize in Flow Chemistry.