Chemistry

Professor Varinder Aggarwal (FRS), Acyclic stereocontrol; organosulfur chemistry; organometallic chemistry; catalytic asymmetric synthesis.

Professor Neil Allan, Computational solid state chemistry; simulations and electronic structure of ceramics and minerals; molecular similarity.

Professor Mike Ashfold (FRS), Spectroscopy and photochemistry of gas-phase molecules; growth of thin diamond films by chemical vapour deposition and laser ablation.

Dr Paul Bartlett, Soft condensed matter; colloidal crystals; structure in concentrated colloidal dispersions; optical tweezers; light and neutron scattering.

Professor Robin Bedford, Synthesis of new catalysts and the inception and development of novel catalytic reactions.

Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn, New synthetic methods for the synthesis of natural products; free radical cyclisations; photocycloadditions and metal catalysed organic reactions.

Dr John Bower, Asymmetric catalysis heterocyclic chemistry and total synthesis.

Dr Wuge Briscoe, Soft matter at interfaces; polymer chemistry.

Dr Ian Bull, Hyphenated mass spectrometric techniques and their application to biogeochemical and environmental problems.

Dr Craig Butts, Experimental investigations (in particular with NMR) of unusual chemical structure or reactivity, with emphasis on developing techniques to probe and control these.

Dr John Crosby, Enzymology of polyketide biosynthesis; role of urocanic acid in uv-induced immunosuppression; electrospray mass spectrometric studies of proteins.

Dr Matt Crump, Elucidation of the structure and function of proteins, biological NMR, protein crystallography,

Dr Sean Davis, Study of inorganic materials using electron microscopy and related techniques.

Professor Tony Davis, Synthetic supramolecular chemistry - design and synthesis of receptors for carbohydrates and anions; application of combinatorial chemistry to the discovery of enantioselective receptors and 'artificial enzymes'.

Professor Julian Eastoe, Surfactant interfaces; structure and dynamics.

Professor Richard Evershed (FRS), Archaeological and palaeontological chemistry; biogeochemistry; analytical chemistry applied to industrial forensic problems.

Dr Charl Faul, Ionic Self-Assembly (ISA); supramolecular chemistry; self-organising nanostructures; novel liquid-crystalline and functional materials.

Dr David Fermin, Electrochemistry; structure-reactivity relationships of Pt and Pd nanoarrays.

Dr M Carmen Galan, Oligosaccharide synthesis and glycobiology; development of expedient and stereoselective glycosylation methods for the synthesis of oligosaccharide targets and glycoconjugates drug analogues.

Professor Tim Gallagher, Development of novel synthetic chemistry and its application to biologically important heterocyclic and carbohydrate-based targets; total synthesis of natural products.

Dr Paul Gates, Mass spectrometry structural elucidation studies of organic and natural products and mass spectrometry methodology development.

Dr Simon Hall, Bioinorganic materials chemistry; synthesis of novel, hierarchical materials; biomimetic routes to advanced superconductors.

Professor Jeremy Harvey, Computational study of chemical reaction mechanisms; inorganic chemistry; atmospheric chemistry; gas-phase chemistry of ionic species.

Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, All aspects of catalysis; transition and main group metals in organic synthesis; asymmetry, mechanism, structure.

Dr Fred Manby, Development of methods in electronic structure theory.

Professor Stephen Mann (FRS), Synthesis and characterisation of self-assembled inorganic materials; biomimetic approaches to organised matter chemistry.

Professor Ian Manners (FRS), Synthesis of reactive inorganic molecules and of functional inorganic polymers; block copolymers containing inorganic elements; self-assembly, supramolecular materials, and nanoscience.

Professor Paul May, Deposition and characterisation of chemical vapour deposited diamond films; diamond-like carbon films; plasma chemistry and etching; World Wide Web innovations.

Professor Adrian Mulholland, Enzyme catalysis by quantum mechanical and molecular dynamical modelling.

Professor Nick Norman, Fundamental and applied chemistry of the heavy p-block elements (primarily bismuth and antimony) and diborane(4) chemistry, transition metal boryls and catalytic boration reactions.

Dr Simon O'Doherty, Atmospheric monitoring of important environmental gases and interpretation of this data.

Professor Guy Orpen, Crystal and molecular structure analysis and design; crystal engineering; structure determination by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, Reaction and photodissociation dynamics; spectroscopy and photochemistry of atmospheric constituents; photochemical mechanics.

Dr Rich Pancost, Applications of combined chromatography/mass spectrometry and stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry to biogeochemistry.

Professor Paul Pringle, Synthesis and applications (eg catalytic) of complexes of phosphines and phosphites.

Professor Jonathan Reid, Chemical dynamics of aerosols; atmospheric aerosols; laser techniques for characterising and manipulating particles.

Dr Paddy Royall, Colloidal dispersions

Dr Chris Russell, Synthesis and reactivity of novel p-block p-bonded compounds; synthetic utility of late-transition metal cyclopentadienyl derivatives; synthesis, reactivity and applications of imido analogues of polyoxoanions.

Professor Dudley Shallcross, Atmospheric chemistry; computer modelling; field measurements and laboratory gas-phase kinetics.

Professor Tom Simpson (FRS), Bio-organic and natural product chemistry, especially biosynthesis of polyketide antibiotics; synthesis of biologically active natural products and mycotoxins.

Dr David Tew, Computational chemistry

Dr Duncan Wass, Homogeneous catalysis; organometallic and coordination chemistry.

Dr Colin Western, Transient species and radicals; laser spectroscopy.

Professor Chris Willis, New methods for the synthesis of natural products and molecules of biological interest; biotransformations; reaction mechanisms; isotopic labelling.

Professor Dek Woolfson, Understanding the relationships between protein sequence and three-dimensional structure; computational and experimental methods to design, synthesise and characterise novel peptide and protein structures; biosensors and scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Dr Jeroen van Duijneveldt, Soft condensed matter; colloids.