Head of Department: Dr John McKendrick
Academic staff
| Name | Position | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Silvia Baldanza | Lecturer in Foundation Chemistry |
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| Dr Adam Bromley |
Lecturer, and Placements and Careers Officer | |
| Dr Mauricio Cafiero | Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, School Lead for Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality, and Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (2025/2026) | Quantum Chemistry, Machine Learning and AI methods in protein-ligand interactions and drug design |
| Professor Christine Cardin | Professor of Crystallography, and Culture Champion on the Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality (WIDE) Committee | Crystallography and structure determination of nucleic acids, ligands binding to nucleic acids, G-quadruplexes and other noncanonical structures. |
| Dr Candyce Clark | Associate Professor of Chemistry Education, and Department Director of Teaching and Learning | Chemistry education, medicinal chemistry and the development of new metal-based drugs, bioinorganic chemistry. |
| Dr James Cooper | Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, and Departmental Director for Postgraduate Studies | Supramolecular chemistry, lipid membranes, conformational dynamics, stimuli-responsive macromolecules, functional materials, molecular machines. |
| Professor Rainer Cramer |
Professor of Mass Spectrometry and Bioanalytical Sciences, Head of the Organic, Biological and Analytical Chemistry Research Section, and Chemistry Representative on the School Research Ethics Committee |
Mass spectrometry, proteomics, clinical diagnostics, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI), analytical chemistry, biomarkers, high-throughput screening (HTP) analysis, systems biology. |
| Dr James Hallett | Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, and International Tutor |
3D microscopy, Thin film structure, soft matter, self-assembly, nanoscience, X-ray and neutron scattering, confinement |
| Professor Ian Hamley | Diamond Professor of Physical Chemistry | Soft matter, self-assembly, nanoscience, polymers, peptides, biomaterials, X-ray and neutron scattering, rheology, circular dichroism. |
| Professor Wayne Hayes | Professor of Polymer Chemistry, and Head of the Soft Matter research group | Functional and reactive polymers, self-assembled polymers, healable polymer networks, self-immolative polymers, degradable polymers, polymer inks for 2D and 3D printing, polymer synthesis. |
| Dr Jessica Kirwin-Gusthart |
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, and Undergraduate Admissions Tutor |
Green chemistry in chemical education, chemistry education, carbohydrate chemistry, chemo-enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates, carbohydrate active enzymes. |
| Dr John McKendrick | Head of Department, Associate Professor in Bio-Organic Chemistry, and Deputy Exams Officer | Bio-compatible monomers/polymers, organic synthesis, analysis of complex multi-component mixtures. |
| Dr Michael M. Piperakis | Lecturer in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, and Department Director of Academic Tutoring | Chemistry education; Nucleic acid & bioinorganic chemistry: nucleic acid canonical and non-canonical structures (e.g. G-quadruplexes), interactions of ruthenium complexes with nucleic acids. |
| Professor Anthony Powell | Professor of Solid-State Chemistry | Solid-state chemistry, functional materials, thermoelectric materials, structure-directed synthesis, neutron diffraction, magnetism, transport properties. |
| Dr Nikita Sachdev |
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry |
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| Dr Dan Skelson |
Lecturer | |
| Dr Chris Smith | Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, and Part 4 Year Tutor | Synthesis, photochemistry, flow chemistry, natural products, nuclear separations using minor actinide selective ligands, organometallics, catalysts. |
| Dr Paz Vaqueiro | Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry | Materials, solid state chemistry, thermoelectric materials, microporous solids, photovoltaic materials. |
| Dr Ben Woolley |
Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry |
Administrative staff
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Sophie Hill |
Executive Administration Officer |
| Isaac Wilks | Postgraduate Administrator |