Abstract
Stephen Lindell was born in Ipswich, England in 1955 and obtained his bachelors degree in chemistry from Imperial College, London in 1977. His doctoral work was performed at the Research Institute for Medicine and Chemistry in Cambridge, Massachusetts under the supervision of Professor Sir Derek Barton and Dr. Robert Hesse. In 1982 he moved to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California to undertake post doctoral research with Professor William Johnson. He returned to England in 1985 to take up a position with Schering Agrochemicals at their Chesterford Park research site near Cambridge. In 1996, he moved to the Companies Frankfurt-Hoechst research site in Germany to work first with AgrEvo, then Aventis CropScience and since 2002, with Bayer CropScience. During his industrial research career he has been involved in the design and synthesis of novel biologically active molecules in all three indications; fungicides, herbicides and insecticides. He is author or co-author of over 50 scientific papers and patents and is currently head of the Hit Generation Chemistry Group at Bayer CropScience in Frankfurt.