Dr Jason McNulty

Lecturer in inorganic Chemistry

Researcher profile

Email

jam242@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr Jason McNulty studied for his MChem in Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. He then remained in St Andrews to conduct his PhD studies with Dr Finlay Morrison from 2015-2018 with his research focusing on structure-property relationships in tungsten bronze oxide materials. In October 2018, Jason began work as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Professor Philip Lightfoot's group at St Andrews, investigating the synthesis and characterisation of layered tin- and lead-halide materials. Jason joined the faculty of the School of Chemistry in January 2021 as an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Inorganic Chemistry at St Andrews. He was appointed as Lecturer in September 2022.

Teaching

Jason contributes to teaching at both sub-honours and honours levels through lectures, tutorials and labs.  Jason provides lectures for CH3514 Physical Inorganic Chemistry (8 lectures 'Physical Chemistry and Bonding of Transition Metals'), CH3431 Chemistry Workshop ('Crystallography') and CH4514 Advanced Metal Chemistry (Module Convenor, 14 lectures 'Chemistry of 4d, 5d and f-Block Elements'). Jason also contributes to tutorials for CH1401, CH1402, CH2501 and CH4461/5461 Integrating Chemistry and demonstrates in CH2501 and CH3521 Inorganic Lab courses. He is also involved with the 4th year research skills labs and scientific writing modules, CH4455 Chemistry Distance Learning (Inorganic Chemistry) module and the 4th/5th year honours research projects.

In addition to teaching, Jason is co-Chair of the departmental Wellbeing Team, the LGBTQI+ champion and involved in both departmental outreach activities and as an active member of the RSC Tayside Local Section committee.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Structural chemistry of layered lead halide perovskites containing single octahedral layers

  McNulty, J. A. & Lightfoot, P., Jul 2021, In: International Union of Crystallography Journal (IUCrJ). 8, 4, p. 485-513

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Variable dimensionality in 'hollow' hybrid tin iodide perovskites

  McNulty, J. A., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Lightfoot, P., 26 Oct 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Dalton Transactions. Advance Articles

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Unprecedented tin iodide perovskite-like structures featuring ordering of organic moieties

  McNulty, J. A. & Lightfoot, P., 28 Apr 2020, In: Chemical Communications. 56, 33, p. 4543-4546

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  An electronically driven improper ferroelectric: tungsten bronzes as microstructural analogs for the hexagonal manganites

  McNulty, J. A., Tran, T. T., Halasyamani, P. S., McCartan, S., MacLaren, I., Gibbs, A., Lim, F., Turner, P., Gregg, J. M., Lightfoot, P. & Morrison, F. D., 4 Oct 2019, In: Advanced Materials. 31, 40, 9 p., 1903620.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Local structure and order-disorder transitions in "empty" ferroelectric tetragonal tungsten bronzes

  McNulty, J. A., Pesquera, D., Gardner, J., Rotaru, A., Playford, H. Y., Tucker, M. G., Carpenter, M. A. & Morrison, F. D., 13 Oct 2020, In: Chemistry of Materials. 32, 19, p. 8492-8501

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Octahedral tilting in the polar hexagonal tungsten bronzes RbNbW₂O₉ and KNbW₂O₉

  McNulty, J. A., Gibbs, A., Lightfoot, P. & Morrison, F. D., Oct 2019, In: Acta Crystallographica. Section B, Structural Science. 75, Part 5, 7 p., B75.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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