Master of the United College
Professor Neville V. Richardson
Professor Neville V. Richardson is the Master of the United College.
Responsibilities of the Master of the United College include:
- Strategic development, planning and management of academic activities.
- Resourcing and staffing the academic Schools.
- Line management of Heads of Academic Schools.
A Chemistry graduate and doctorate of the University of Oxford, Professor Richardson was Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Surface Science at the University of Liverpool for ten years before moving to St Andrews in 1998. He was Head of the School of Chemistry, 2002-2008 and served as Vice Principal (Research), January 2009 - July 2009.
Professor Richardson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Further information on the research profile of Professor Richardson