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Staff Listing and Profiles

Academic Staff

Dr. G. Ball NMR spectroscopy, inorganic and organometallic chemistry.
Prof. R. Bishop Synthesis of new host-guest inclusion compounds; molecular recognition and crystal engineering; synthetic alicyclic chemistry.
Prof. D. St.C. Black Organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry (e.g. indoles, oxaziridines), organic coordination chemistry.
Prof. A. Buckley
(adjunct)
Application of XPS and XANES to fundamental aspects of minerals processing and materials utilisation. Coal preparation and chemistry. Industrial carbon materials.
Dr. S.B. Colbran Synthetic inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry; (spectro)electrochemistry.
Dr. M.L. Cole Main group hydrides and selective organic transformations, low valent rare earths in organic synthesis, the development of functionalised N-heterocyclic carbenes.
Dr. G.L. Edwards Organic synthetic methodology; sulfones in synthesis; asymmetric synthesis; medicinal chemistry; novel DNA binding agents; organometallic chemistry.
Prof. L. Field Nitrogen fixation, C-H bond activation & functionalisation, organometallic chemistry of carbon dioxide, transition metal catalysis in organic synthesis, transition metal acetylides, organometallic polymers, metallocenes.
Prof. J.J. Gooding Biosensors and chemical sensors, electroanalytical and electrochemistry, the investigation of heterogeneous reactions, surface chemistry.
Prof. M. Guilhaus (Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility) Applied & fundamental mass spectrometry: time-of-flight, new instrumentation, fast chromatography, ICP/MS, ESI/MS, MALDI TOFMS.
Dr. R. Haines Chemical education. User interfaces for chemical instruments. Computer applications in chemistry.
Prof. M. Harding Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, Ligand DNA Interactions, Antifreeze Proteins and Glycoproteins, Metallosupramolecular Chemistry.
Dr. J. Harper Atropisomerism, bioorganic chemistry, enzymes in synthesis, ionic liquids, peptide chemistry, molecular scaffolds.
Prof. D.B. Hibbert Electroanalytical chemistry, electrochemistry, chemometrics, chemical metrology.
Dr. N. Kumar Natural products chemistry, synthesis of biologically active compounds, heterocyclic chemistry, calixarene chemistry.
Prof. B. Messerle Organometallic complexes as homogeneous catalysts in chemical synthesis, NMR Spectroscopy for structure determination and investigation of reaction mechanisms.
Assoc. Prof. G. Moran
(adjunct)
Analytical chemistry and spectroscopy; spectroscopic characterisation of polymer membranes and gels; optical sensors.
Assoc. Prof. R.W. Read Synthesis of biologically important substances, including marine natural products, eupodienones, muscarinic receptor ligands; heterocyclic chemistry; energetic materials research.
Dr. N.K. Roberts Organometallic chemistry, organophosphines, chiral synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, coordination chemistry.
Dr. J.A. Stride Materials chemistry, neutron scattering.
Dr. P. Thordarson Bio-mimetic chemistry, nanobiotechnology and bio-organic chemistry, bioelectronics, self-assembled gels, applications of STM and AFM.

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Research Staff

  • Dr M. Scudder

Visiting Professor

Emeritus Professors

  • Stephen J.C. Angyal
  • G.W. Ken Cavill
  • Peter Clezy
  • Ian G. Dance
  • Stanley E. Livingstone
  • Michael Paddon-Row
  • Ronald Postle
  • James S. Shannon
  • Lloyd E. Smythe

Honorary Visiting Fellows

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