Academic staff

Supramolecular chemistry, Chemistry outreach and widening participation, Scholarship interests including laboratory learning and transition from A-level.

Water-soluble polymers, block copolymers, polymerisation-induced self-assembly, RAFT polymerisation, polymer brushes, colloidal nanocomposites, microgels, latexes, gels, foams & branched polymers.

Inorganic supramolecular chemistry, porous coordination framework materials, reactions in molecular crystals.

Outreach specialist. Public engagement and school outreach interests.

Teaching specialist. Scholarship interests including laboratory learning, key skills, curriculum design, and the student experience.

Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Biophysics, Photo-Chemistry, Photosynthesis, Pulse Shaping, High-Harmonics Generation.

Computer aided molecular design and combinatorial chemistry to facilitate drug design and molecular recognition studies.

Protein design, protein self-assembly and aggregation, protein interactions with phospholipid membranes, membrane remodelling and mechanisms of cellular membrane repair.

Organic synthesis, new methodology in organic chemistry, asymmetric organolithium chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry.

Heterogeneous catalysis, nano and functional materials, sustainable chemistry, analytical chemistry.

Development and application of single-molecule fluorescence techniques to addressing crucial questions across physics, chemistry and the life sciences.

Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Polymer Chemistry.

Porous Polymers, Gas storage, Heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 utilisation.

Developing two-dimensional metal-organic framework Nanosheets (MONs) for sensing, catalysis, electronics and separation applications.

Catalysis, protein and nucleic structure and function, nucleic acid chemistry, molecular recognition, enzymology.

Boronic acids, asymmetric synthesis, catalysis, total synthesis, novel peptide constraints.

Homogeneous catalysis, organometallic reaction mechanisms, carbonylation, infrared spectroscopy, supported catalysts.

Theoretical & Computational chemistry, intermolecular interactions, machine learning, solvation, data-driven and automated approaches to synthesis.

Laser spectroscopy, gas phase analysis, ab initio theory, intermolecular association, hydrogen-bonding.

Electroactive polymers, synthesis of novel polymers and functional materials, electroluminescence, solar cells, charge transporting materials, redox-active functionalised conjugated polymers.

Organic synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, Diels-Alder reactions, phosphorylation, organo-phosphorus chemistry, oxazaborolidine reduction, catalysis.

Nanofabrication, plasmonics, biomaterials, surface analysis, scanning probe microscopy, nanotribology.

Theoretical & Computational chemistry, surfaces and interfaces, adsorption and self-assembly, electron transfer, materials for photocatalysis and solar cells, soil minerals.

Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, Astrochemistry, Quantum Dynamics; Reactive Scattering; Chemical Reaction Dynamics; High-Performance Computing.

X-ray, light and neutron scattering, soft matter, polymer physics, rheology, fats and lipids.

Asymmetric Synthesis, Transition Metal Catalysis, Organoboron Chemistry.

Main group element chemistry, high energy compounds, main group element - transition metal multiple bonds, time-resolved infrared spectroscopy.

Catalysis, Enzyme mechanism, kinetics, porphyrin, chlorophyll.

Polymer Nanotechnology (synthesis, processing, self-assembly, structure-property relations), Public engagement in science and technology.

Design of polymers for performance and sustainability, reversible covalent and supramolecular networks. Polyurethanes, acrylics, polyesters, adhesives, coatings, elastomers, composites.

Controlled radical polymerisation, stimuli-responsive materials (light, temperature, oxidation etc), polymer self-assembly, debondable/reformable adhesives, composites, drug delivery and diagnostics.

Synthesis of novel precise bio/mineral nanomaterial architectures for nanotechnological and biomedical applications.

Coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, imaging probes, therapeutics, theranostics.

Biomimetics, dendritic molecules, supramolecular chemistry, encapsulation and drug delivery.

Photochemistry, photophysics, time-resolved spectroscopy, luminescence, light-induced electron transfer in chemical and biological systems, solar energy conversion, ultrafast excited state dynamics.

Nucleic acid chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, nucleotide chemistry, DNA damage, DNA repair, O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferases, alkyltransferase-like proteins.

Physical organic chemistry. Mechanism, reactivity and catalysis with relevance to biology. Functional supramolecular systems based around metal organic cages and membrane embedded species.