Gillian Reid (born 1964) is a British chemist who is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and former Head of the Department of Chemistry at theUniversity of Southampton. Her research considerscoordination chemistry,inorganic semiconductors and metal fluoride scaffolds. In 2020, she was appointed the President-elect of theRoyal Society of Chemistry, becoming President in 2022.

Reid became interested in chemistry whilst at high school. She eventually studiedchemistry at theUniversity of Edinburgh, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1986. She remained there for her doctoral research, where she studiedmacrocyclic complexes.^[1] After earning her degree in 1989, and a 2 year postdoctoral research position in Edinburgh, Reid moved to a lectureship in theUniversity of Southampton.^{[citation needed]}

In 1991, Reid joined the University of Southampton as a lecturer. She was promoted to Professor in 2006.^[2] Under her leadership, Southampton joined the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry.^[3] Reid leads molecular assembly and structure at the University of Southampton.^[4]

Her research considers inorganiccoordination chemistry, with a particular focus on the design of macrocyclic ligands that involvechalcogen donor atoms.^[5] She makes use of non-aqueouselectrodeposition to grow inorganic semiconductor alloys.^[6] Electrodeposition allows for bottom-up growth without the need for anultra-high vacuum environment.^[6] Reid has created molecular reagents that allow the synthesis of compounds for use innon-volatile memory,thermoelectric generators andtwo-dimensional materials. The reagents were used to deposit a wide variety of thin films including highly puregermanium telluride, molybdenum disulphide and tungsten disulphide.^{[7][8][9][10]}

In 2002, Reid co-founded theSouthampton Science and Engineering Day, which has since evolved into the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival.^[2] The event was founded to coincide withBritish Science Week, which occurs annually in March.^[2] In 2010, Reid was made the Head of the Department of Chemistry Outreach Programme. In 2015, she co-led theRoyal Society Summer Science exhibitTaking Technology Smaller, which introduced the public toelectrochemistry as a means to build nanoscale electronic devices.^[11]

• 2006 Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching in Chemistry^[2]
• 2007Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Achievement in the Promotion of Chemistry^[2]
• 2011 Elected a member of the Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry^[12]
• 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry^{[citation needed]}
• 2020 Appointed the President-elect of the Royal Society of Chemistry^[13][14]
• 2022 Elected Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh^[15]
• 2024CBE "for services to thechemical sciences and toinclusion and diversity".^[16]

• Levason, William; Orchard, Simon D.; Reid, Gillian (2002-02-01)."Recent developments in the chemistry of selenoethers and telluroethers".Coordination Chemistry Reviews.225 (1):159–199.doi:10.1016/S0010-8545(01)00412-X.ISSN 0010-8545.
• Lin, Gang; Reid, Gillian; Bugg, Timothy D. H. (May 2001). "Extradiol Oxidative Cleavage of Catechols by Ferrous and Ferric Complexes of 1,4,7-Triazacyclononane: Insight into the Mechanism of the Extradiol Catechol Dioxygenases".Journal of the American Chemical Society.123 (21):5030–5039.Bibcode:2001JAChS.123.5030L.doi:10.1021/ja004280u.ISSN 0002-7863.PMID 11457331.
• Cheng, Fei; Hector, Andrew L.; Levason, William; Reid, Gillian; Webster, Michael; Zhang, Wenjian (2009-06-29). "Germanium(II) Dications Stabilized by Azamacrocycles and Crown Ethers".Angewandte Chemie.121 (28):5254–5256.Bibcode:2009AngCh.121.5254C.doi:10.1002/ange.200901247.PMID 19504510.

Reid has two children.^{[citation needed]}