Gill studied Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, receiving a BSc (hons) in 1986 and a PhD investigating the synthesis, structures and redox properties of transition metal macrocyclic complexes in 1989. In 1991, following a two year post-doctoral position, she was appointed to a lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Southampton and was promoted to Professor in 2006. She is currently Head of Chemistry at Southampton. She has published >270 papers (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9110-2009) and regularly presents her group’s work at national and international conferences. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and served as an Elected Member of RSC Council (2011-15). Gill has a strong commitment to education in Chemistry, outreach and public engagement. At present her teaching spans a range of topics across inorganic coordination chemistry and macrocyclic chemistry, and she has served as External Examiner for UG degree programmes in several UK Chemistry Departments. She led Chemistry's Outreach Programme from 2000-10, while also holding several successful EPSRC and RSC projects in this area. She received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching in Chemistry in 2006 and an RSC Award for Achievement in the Promotion of Chemistry (2007).

Gill's research interests are mainly in the area of synthetic inorganic chemistry, including the design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te), and their chemistry with metal ions from across the periodic table.

[Pd4(mu-3-SbMe3)4(SbMe3)4]: a Pd(0) tetrahedron with mu3-bridging trimethylantimony ligands - Benjamin, Sophie L., Krämer, Tobias, Levason, William, Light, Mark E., Macgregor, Stuart A. and Reid, Gill Published:2016Publication:Journal of the American Chemical SocietyVolume:138, (22)Page Range:6964-6967doi:10.1021/jacs.6b04060 Nanoscale arrays of antimony telluride single crystals by selective chemical vapor deposition - Huang, Ruomeng, Benjamin, Sophie, Gurnani, Chitra, Wang, Yudong, Hector, Andrew, Levason, William, Reid, Gill and De Groot, Kees Published:2016Publication:Scientific ReportsVolume:6, (27593)Page Range:1-10doi:10.1038/srep27593 Non-aqueous electrodeposition of functional semiconducting metal chalcogenides: Ge2Sb2Te5phase change memory - Bartlett, Philip N., Benjamin, Sophie L., de Groot, C.H. (Kees), Hector, Andrew L., Huang, Ruomeng, Jolleys, Andrew, Kissling, Gabriela, Levason, William, Pearce, Stuart J., Reid, Gillian and Wang, Yudong Published:2015Publication:Materials HorizonsVolume:2, (4)Page Range:420-426doi:10.1039/C5MH00030K Triaza-macrocyclic complexes of aluminium, gallium and indium halides: fast 18F and 19F incorporation via halide exchange under mild conditions in aqueous solution - Reid, Gillian, Levason, William, Zhang, Wenjian, Sanderson, George, Bhalla, Rajiv, Luthra, Sajinder and McRobbie, Graeme