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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Dr R Alan Aitken
Reader
Asymmetric synthesis; gas-phase chemistry; synthesis of new heterocycles; new synthetic methods
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 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
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 David Cordes
X-Ray Crystallographer
Small-molecule single-crystal X-ray diffraction, molecular structure determination, chemical crystallography, metallosupramolecular chemistry
Dr Gordon Florence
Director of Teaching
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
Dr Petr Kilian
Senior Lecturer
main group chemistry, synthesis, reaction mechanisms, radical reactions, molecular structure and bonding
Dr Amit Kumar
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Green homogeneous catalysis, Organometallic chemistry, Hydrogen storage materials, Polymer chemistry, Circular economy
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 Finlay Morrison
Professor
Solid-state and materials chemistry; ferroelectrics and dielectrics; functional materials; impedance and dielectric spectroscopy; composition-structure-property relationships.
Dr Julia Payne
Research Fellow (Energy/Energy Materials)
solid state electrolytes; organic-inorganic metal halides (‘hybrid perovskites’) for photovoltaics; in-situ and operando studies
Prof Andrew Smith
Director of Research
Professor
Enantioselective catalysis using Lewis bases; kinetic and mechanistic studies; methodology development
Dr Andreas Stasch
Reader in Chemistry
Main group chemistry; low oxidation state compounds; metal hydride complexes; organometallic synthesis and catalysis; ligand design
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 John Walton
Research Professor
Biological relevance of selected free radicals; free-radical kinetic and mechanistic studies; computational study of radical behaviour
Prof Allan Watson
Professor of Homogeneous Catalysis
Catalysis; kinetic and mechanistic studies; medicinal chemistry; methodology development; total synthesis; agrochemistry
Prof Paul Wright
Royal Society Industrial Fellow
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 Wuzong Zhou
Professor
Crystal growth; defects in solids; synthesisof nanomaterials; formation mechanisms of novel morphologies.
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.
