Council Members

Robin Perutz has research interests in organometallics and their photochemistry, reaction mechanisms and spectroscopy. Topics of his publications include small molecule activation, sigma complexes, photo-induced electron transfer, structure and kinetics of reaction intermediates. He has served as Head of Department in York (2000-2004) and was Tilden lecturer in 1992/3 and Nyholm Lecturer (2005/6).

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Peter Edwards has been an academic in Cardiff for longer than he cares to remember. After a personal chair in 1997, he became professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1999. His current research interests revolve around functional ligands, phosphorus macrocycles and the chemistry of their complexes.

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Peter has held the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh for nine years, having previously been a Company Research Associate in ICI and Zeneca with responsibility for co-ordination chemistry. Research interests include a range of applications ligand design to metal recovery and surface engineering.

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Claire did her BSc and PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1998 she took a lectureship at UCL, was promoted to Senior lecturer in 2002 and Reader in 2004. Her research involves developing innovative new routes to inorganic materials via CVD and sol-gel processes. She was awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize in 2000.

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Phil Dyer obtained his PhD in organometallic chemistry from Durham in 1993. After two years as a Royal Society postdoctoral fellow in Toulouse, he returned to the UK to a lectureship at Imperial College. In 1996 he moved to the University of Leicester and then to the University of Durham in 2004. Research interests include coordination, organometallic and organophosphorus chemistry and catalysis.

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Matthew Davidson did his BSc at University of Swansea and obtained a PhD from Cambridge University in main group organometallic chemistry. After five years as a lecturer at the University of Durham, in 1999 he was appointed to a chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bath. His research interests include aspects of the synthesis, structure and functionality of metal-containing molecular species, with a recent emphasis on polymerization catalysis and sustainable chemistry.

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Stuart Macgregor received a PhD from Edinburgh University in 1992. After a NATO Western European Fellowship at the Université de Paris-Sud and a post-doctoral position at the Australian National University, he returned to Scotland in 1997 to take up a lectureship at Heriot-Watt. He is currently a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry with research interests in the use of computational chemistry to understand the structure and reactivity of transition metal systems.

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Dai did his BSc and PhD at Bristol University and was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He was appointed to a lectureship at Leicester in 1985. His research interests are in organometallic and coordination chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and ionic liquids and their applications in catalysis and metal processing. He is technical director of Scionix a University of Leicester spin out company.

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Cristina Lagunas obtained her first Degree and PhD in the University of Murcia (Spain) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). After three years in a temporary lectureship in Madrid, she was appointed a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry in Queen’s University Belfast (2001). Her current research focuses on luminescent metal complexes, in particular gold, and on molecular sensors. She is also involved in multidisciplinary research in electrochemistry and catalysis in ionic liquids.

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Dave obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of Wales, Cardiff and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universities of Arizona and York. In 1986 he joined the AFRC /BBSRC Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, Sussex, which was relocated to the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich in 1995. He is now a Project Leader in the Department of Biological Chemistry at JIC and an Honorary Reader in the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia. His research interests include coordination chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry and bionanoscience.

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Neil Champness is the Professor of Chemical Nanoscience at the University of Nottingham. His research concerns many aspects of molecular organisation and supramolecular chemistry, notably nanostructure formation on surfaces and in solution, crystal engineering and coordination polymer synthesis.

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Martin Partridge is employed by Johnson Matthey in Royston as the Technology Manager for the Global Chemical Catalysts business.  Following a DPhil at York in Organometallic chemistry and a Royal Society postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sydney he joined ICI in 1995.  In 2002 he transferred to Johnson Matthey on the acquisition of Synetix, the catalyst division of ICI. He has held a number of technical roles in both organisations.

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Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the University of York. Research interests include biocoordination chemistry, radioimaging agents for cancer and ultra-high stability chelating agents.

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