People
Meet the academic, teaching and professional services staff that lead on delivering teaching and research, as well as research fellows and PhD students.
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Prof R Alan Aitken
Professor
Asymmetric synthesis; gas-phase chemistry; synthesis of new heterocycles; new synthetic methods
Dr Robert Armstrong
Principal Research Fellow
Prof Sharon E. Ashbrook
Deputy Head of School
Professor
Solid-state NMR method development; Applciation of NMR to the study of inoragnic materials; First-principles calcualtion of NMR parameters; Solid-state NMR of microporous materials
Dr Richard Baker
Senior Lecturer
Dr Bela Bode
Reader
Reader in Chemistry
Advanced Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) methods and their application; Paramagnetic catalysts and intermediates; Conformational states of proteins and nucleic acids; Electronic structure of paramagnetic compounds
Dr Jan-Willem Bos
Reader in Energy Materials and Sustainability
Prof Manfred Buck
Professor
Molecular and supramolecular self-assembly; surface science; liquid/solid interfaces, nanoscience, electrochemistry
Prof Michael Buehl
Professor
Computational modeling of structures, properties and reactivities of molecules and materials.
Dr Paul Connor
Senior Research and Teaching Fellow
Dr David Cordes
X-Ray Crystallographer
Small-molecule single-crystal X-ray diffraction, molecular structure determination, chemical crystallography, metallosupramolecular chemistry
Dr Gordon Florence
Senior Lecturer
Chemcal Biology; Natural Products; Neglected Tropical Diseases; Target Elucidation; Drug Design
Dr Craig Johnston
Royal Society Research Fellow
organic synthesis; photocatalysis; base metal catalysis; enantioselective radical reactions; kinetic and mechanistic studies
Dr Euan Kay
Senior Lecturer
Supramolecular chemistry; nanochemistry; colloidal nanoparticles; kinetic and thermodynamic analysis; catalysis at nanoscale interfaces; hybrid nanomaterials
Dr Neil Keddie
Associate Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
Dr Petr Kilian
Senior Lecturer
main group chemistry, synthesis, reaction mechanisms, radical reactions, molecular structure and bonding
Dr Amit Kumar
Principal Research Fellow
Green homogeneous catalysis, Organometallic chemistry, Hydrogen storage materials, Polymer chemistry, Circular economy
Prof Stuart Macgregor
Chair in Computational Inorganic Chemistry
Dr Jason McNulty
Lecturer in inorganic Chemistry
Dr John B. O. Mitchell
Reader
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & informatics in Chemistry; Prediction of solubility and other molecular thermodynamic properties; Modelling the organic crystalline state; Classification and computer-based representation of enzyme reaction mechanisms; Bioinformatics studies of molecular evolution; Modelling protein-ligand interactions.
Prof Russell Morris
Bishop Wardlaw Professor
Prof Finlay Morrison
Professor
Solid-state and materials chemistry; ferroelectrics and dielectrics; functional materials; impedance and dielectric spectroscopy; composition-structure-property relationships.
Dr Julia Payne
Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry
solid state electrolytes; organic-inorganic metal halides (‘hybrid perovskites’) for photovoltaics; in-situ and operando studies
Dr Russ Pearson
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
Dr Danica Pinto
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry
Prof Andrew Smith
Director of Research
Professor
Enantioselective catalysis using Lewis bases; kinetic and mechanistic studies; methodology development
Dr Rebecca Smith
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry
Dr Andreas Stasch
Reader in Chemistry
Main group chemistry; low oxidation state compounds; metal hydride complexes; organometallic synthesis and catalysis; ligand design
Prof Venkataraman Thangadurai
Chair in Energy
Solid State Ionics; Energy Storage & Conversion; Solid State Electrochemistry; Transport Properties; Solid Electrolytes and Electrodes; Solid State Batteries; Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Lithium-Sulfur Battery; Sodium Battery; Carbon Capture and Storage
Dr Tanja Van Mourik
Reader
Application of molecular quantum chemical methods (e.g. density functional theory) to study properties of molecules, including conformation, intermolecular interactions (including sigma-hole interactions) and spectroscopic properties.
Prof Allan Watson
Professor of Homogeneous Catalysis
Catalysis; kinetic and mechanistic studies; medicinal chemistry; methodology development; total synthesis; agrochemistry
Prof Nicholas Westwood
Professor
Prof Paul Wright
Professor
Synthesis and structure of novel zeolites and MOFs; design of MOF-based catalysts for fine chemicals synthesis; Design of selective adsorbents; Operando studies of zeolite catalysts
Prof Eli Zysman-Colman
Director of Impact
Professor of Optoelectronic Materials
organic synthesis; organometallic synthesis; photocatalysis; emitter design for electroluminescent devices (OLEDs, LEECs); dye design for solar cells; organic semiconductor development; supramolecular chemistry; photophysics.
Dr Katrin Ackermann
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Mainul Akhtar
Research Fellow
Dr Matthew Andrews
Research Associate (Organometallic Catalysis and CO2 Utilisation)
Mr Joel Cabanero
Research Fellow (Sodium-ion Batteries)
Dr Helen Connaris
Senior Research Fellow in Enzyme Production, Purification and Assessment (Translationally Focused)
Dr Sneha Daradmare
Research Fellow
Dr John Dos Santos
Research Fellow in Organic Optoelectronics
Miss Morven Duncan
Research Fellow
Dr Jose Fuentes Garcia
Research Associate (Organometallic Catalysis and CO2 Utilisation)
Dr Manoj Gautam
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Federico Grillo
Research Fellow
Dr Senjuti Halder
Research Fellow
Dr Olena Holodaieva
Senior Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry
Dr Guoxiong Hua
Research Fellow
Mr Gavin Irvine
Research Fellow
Mr Matthew Irvine
Research Fellow
Dr Arosha Karunathilake
Research Fellow (Synthesis of Zoelites & MOFs)
Dr Nicole Kelly
Research Fellow (Solid-state NMR of Zoelites & MOFs)
Dr Pavel Kulyabin
Research Associate in Homogeneous Catalysis/Polymer Chemistry
Dr Zhibin Liu
Research Fellow
Dr Phillip Lowe
EPSRC Research Fellow
Dr Rose Lynch
Research Fellow
Dr Oxana Magdysyuk
Scientific Officer (Powder X-ray Diffraction)
Dr Rahul Majee
Research Fellow
Dr Raymundo Marcial Hernandez
Research Associate in Polymer Chemistry/Homogeneous Catalysis
Dr Aidan McKay
Scientific Officer (X-ray Diffraction)
Dr Madhumita Mukhopadhyay
Research Fellow
Mr Kamil Nowicki
Research Fellow
Dr Selda Ozkan
Research Fellow
Dr Ioanna Pateli
Research Fellow
Dr Amy Price
Broom McIntyre Diversity Fellow
Mr Dean Roberts
Research Fellow
Dr Cristian Savaniu
Research Fellow
Dr Sunil Sharma
Research Fellow
Dr Martin Smith
Research Fellow
Dr Jiyu Tian
Research Fellow
Dr Ming Tong
Research Fellow in Enzymology/Protein Biochemistry
Dr Michael Treanor
Research Fellow (Surface Chemistry)
Dr Mihkel Vestli
Faraday Institution Research Fellow
Mr Shu Wang
Research Fellow
Dr Yunpeng Wang
Research Fellow
Dr Paul Wheatley
Research Fellow
Prof Neville V Richardson
Emeritus Professor
Prof John Walton
Emeritus Professor
Biological relevance of selected free radicals; free-radical kinetic and mechanistic studies; computational study of radical behaviour
Prof Wuzong Zhou
Emeritus Professor
Crystal growth; defects in solids; synthesisof nanomaterials; formation mechanisms of novel morphologies.