Academic and emeritus 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.

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

Research: Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Biophysics, Photo-Chemistry, Photosynthesis, Pulse Shaping, High-Harmonics Generation.
Teaching Interests: Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy.

The major focus of our research is to use computer aided molecular design and combinatorial chemistry to facilitate drug design and molecular recognition studies.

Protein design, protein engineering, membrane remodelling, membrane trafficking, molecular and structural biology, biophysical chemistry.

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

Heterogeneous catalysis, water treatment processes, waste valorisation and recycling, biomass conversion, hydrocarbon oxidation.

Research in the Craggs Lab involves the development and application of single-molecule fluorescence techniques to addressing crucial questions across physics, chemistry and the life sciences.

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

Polymer Synthesis, Polymerization Kinetics and Mechanisms, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Telechelic Oligomers, Ozonolysis, Chemical Modification, Flame Retardance.

Supramolecular Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Soft Materials.

Theoretical chemistry, molecular properties, ring currents, aromaticity, fullerenes, molecular electronic devices, symmetry and discrete mathematics in chemistry.

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

Organometallic chemistry, carbon-carbon bond formation, asymmetric synthesis, catalysis, total synthesis.

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

Theoretical chemistry, Gaussian basis sets, aromaticity, intermolecular interactions, thermochemistry, ab initio spectroscopy, machine learning,

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

Chemical Education Research in the fields of International students Learning & Development, Employability, Industrial Chemistry, Undergraduate Laboratory Development, Training & Development.

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

Organic Synthesis, organozinc chemistry, combinatorial and asymmetric catalysis.

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

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

Synthesis, catalysis, organometallic, coordination, spectroscopy, mechanisms.

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

Mass spectrometry. Laser ablation and ICP spectrochemical analysis. Chemical speciation. Trace/environmental/bio/materials characterisation.

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.

Molecular properties, molecular conformations at surfaces, docking and shape dependent methods, molecular solvation.

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.

Functional polymers, supramolecular, reversible, interactions. Polymer synthesis: architecture, processing, properties. Polyurethanes, acrylics, adhesives, coatings.

My research interests lie at the interfaces of chemistry, biology and pharmacy, particularly the use of modern synthetic polymer chemistry for the development of new therapeutics and diagnostics.

Our group seeks to synthesis novel precise bio/mineral nanomaterial architectures for nanotechnological and biomedical applications.

Reactivity and mechanism. Molecular assembly and interaction.

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, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. Mechanism, reactivity and catalysis, especially relevant to biology. Functional supramolecular systems. Surface engineering materials.

Organometallic chemistry, reaction mechanisms, migration reactions, carbene complexes, carbyne complexes, vinylidene complexes, chemistry data visualisation.