EaStCHEM | University of St Andrews Research Staff

Research Staff

Staff at The University of St Andrews

Name	Research Areas	Keywords
Dr R Alan Aitken	Synthesis	synthetic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, flash vacuum pyrolysis, heterocyclic chemistry, electronic materials, organophosphorus chemistry
Dr Sharon Ashbrook	Chemical Physics, Materials	multinuclear solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), method development, ab initio calculations, minerals, framework materials
Dr Christopher J Baddelely	Chemical Physics	surface science, heterogeneous catalysis, surface chirality, scanning probe microscopy, alloys, nanoparticles, medium energy ion scattering
Dr Richard T Baker	Materials	fuel cells, solid state electrochemistry, functional materials, heterogeneous catalysis, electron microscopy, Electro-Active Polymers
Dr Bela Bode	Chemistry/Biology Interface, Chemical Physics	Pulsed and Continuous Wave EPR Spectroscopy, Hyperpolarisation Techniques (CIDNP and DNP)
Dr Catherine H Botting	Chemistry/Biology Interface	mass spectrometry of biological molecules with an emphasis on proteomics
Prof. Peter G Bruce FRS	Materials	chemistry, solid state chemistry, electrochemistry, solid state ionics, solid ionic conductors, intercalation compounds polymer electrolytes, synthesis' structure determination
Prof. Manfred Buck	Chemical Physics	ultrathin organic films, self-assembled monolayers (SAM), buried interfaces, electrochemistry, scanning probe microscopy, nonlinear laser spectroscopy
Professor Michael Bühl	Chemical Physics	computational chemistry, transition-metal complexes, homogeneous catalysis, NMR properties, first-principles molecular dynamics simulations
Dr Catherine SJ Cazin	Synthesis	Homogeneous catalysis, organometallic chemistry
Dr Matt L Clarke	Synthesis	homogeneous catalysis, asymmetric synthesis, synthetic methodology, organometallic and co-ordination chemistry
Prof. David J Cole-Hamilton	Synthesis	applications of organometallic compounds in homogeneous catalysis and materials science
Dr Joe A Crayston	Synthesis	electrochemistry, modified electrodes, electrocatalysis, solar energy conversion, coordination compounds, conducting polymers, redox polymers
Dr Changjiang Dong	Chemistry/Biology Interface	Chemical and membrane biology, structure and function of membrane protein and membrane protein complex, infection and cancer, structure-based drug design, drug synthesis by novel enzymes.
Dr Gordon Florence	Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis	organic synthesis; bioactive natural products and structural analogues; new methods and strategies for asymmetric stereocontrol
Dr Herbert Früchtl	Chemical Physics	computational chemistry
Dr Christopher Glidewell	Synthesis
Dr Georg Haehner	Chemical Physics, Materials	functional organic films, liquid solid interactions, protein adsorption, scanning probe techniques, photoelectron spectroscopy
Prof. John T S Irvine	Materials	energy, sustainability, fuel cells, SOFC, hydrogen, renewable fuels, solid state chemistry, electrochemistry, ceramics, materials
Prof. Paul Kamer	Synthesis	homogeneous catalysis, organometallic chemistry, ligand design, phosphorus chemistry, transition metalloenzymes
Dr Euan Kay	Synthesis	supramolecular chemistry, nanochemistry, self assembly, functional molecules and artificial molecular machines
Dr Petr Kilian	Synthesis	synthesis, organo-phosphorus and organo-pnictide chemistry, sterically hindered molecules, heteroatom centred radicals and biradicaloids
Dr Tomas Lebl	Synthesis	solution state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of small molecules
Prof. Philip Lightfoot	Materials	solid state chemistry, functional inorganic materials, crystallography, structure-property relationships, ferroelectrics, X-ray and neutron diffraction
Dr John Mitchell	Chemistry/Biology Interface	structural bioinformatics, enzyme reaction mechanisms, chemoinformatics, solubility, machine learning, computational toxicology
Prof. Russell E Morris	Materials, Synthesis	synthesis, characterisation and application of porous materials, zeolites, metal organic frameworks, ionic liquids, medical applications
Dr Finlay D Morrison	Materials	electroceramics, solid state chemistry, functional oxides, ferroelectrics, thin films, dielectric properties, nano-structured oxides
Prof. James H Naismith	Chemistry/Biology Interface	protein chemistry, enzyme mechanism, natural product biosynthesis, drug resistant bacteria, crystallography
Dr Wigen Nazarov	Materials	Very low density foams using photo-initiated monomers. Low density polymeric foam films, carbonized foam systems, foams containing high percentage of homogeneously dispersed high Z elements and metallic foams.
Prof. Steven P Nolan	Synthesis	organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis
Prof. David O'Hagan	Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis	organic chemistry, organo-fluorine chemistry, biological chemistry, natural products, biotransformations, enzyme mechanism, biosynthesis
Prof. Douglas Philp	Synthesis	replication processes, molecular recognition, computational chemistry, physical organic chemistry, catalysis and autocatalysis
Prof. Neville V Richardson	Chemical Physics	molecular adsorption on metal and semiconductor surfaces, chirality at surfaces, self-assembly and surface functionalisation
Dr Renald Schaub	Chemical Physics	surface science, heterogeneous catalysis, scanning probe microscopy, mass spectrometry, model systems, metal-oxides, non-scalable size range
Prof. Alex MZ Slawin	Chemical Physics, Synthesis	chemical crystallography, structure solution and structure activity relationships, automation of crystallography
Dr Iain A Smellie	Synthesis	Heterocyclic Carbohydrates; Nitrile Oxides; Pseudodisaccharides; Glycosylation methods
Dr Andrew D Smith	Synthesis	organic synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, organocatalysis, natural product synthesis
Dr Terry Smith	Chemistry/Biology Interface	molecular parasitology, phosholipid metabolism, glycosyltransferases, mass spectrometry and carbohydrate chemistry
Dr Tanja van Mourik	Chemical Physics	ab initio quantum chemistry, conformation of biological molecules, spectroscopic properties (IR and NMR), methods and basis sets
Prof. John C Walton	Synthesis	organic synthetic methods, free-radical chemistry, EPR spectroscopy
Dr Nicholas J Westwood	Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis	synthetic chemistry, natural products. chemical genetics, interdisciplinary research, diversity-oriented synthesis
Prof. J Derek Woollins	Synthesis	synthesis, p- block chemistry, sulfur, selenium, P-S, P-Se rings and cages. S-N, Se-N, M-S-N and M-Se-N chemistry
Dr Philip Wormald	Chemical Physics, Materials	development of ¹⁹F solid-state NMR techniques for fluorinated polymers, organic and inorganic fluorides and the analysis of dynamic processes and NMR parameters using sparse matrices
Dr Paul Wright	Materials	microporous and mesoporous solids, organic-inorganic hybrids and zeolites, structural studies, adsorption and catalysis
Dr Wuzong Zhou	Chemical Physics, Materials	solid state structural chemistry, inorganic materials, nanomaterials and electron microscopy