Council Members

Peter has recently retired from the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh which he held for nine years, having previously been a Company Research Associate in ICI and Zeneca with responsibility for co-ordination chemistry. As an Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh his research interests include a range of applications of ligand design to metal recovery and surface engineering, many of which depend on the control of outer sphere coordination chemistry.

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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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Steve graduated with a BSc in Chemistry, Life Systems and Pharmaceuticals from the University of York and was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Kansas and the University of York. He then took up a position as a Lecturer at the University of Hull in 2000 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2008. 
His research interests are in medicinal inorganic chemistry, particularly molecular imaging and cell surface receptor binding molecules.

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Helen graduated from University College London, where she also did her PhD, supervised by Tony Deeming. After postdoctoral research at Columbia University (with Steve Lippard) and Queen Mary College (with Don Bradley), she moved to a lectureship at the University of Liverpool, where she is now a reader in inorganic chemistry. Her research interests are in rare earth coordination chemistry, particularly with applications in organic synthesis and materials science. She is also very active in outreach work with schools.

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Catherine graduated with an MSc at the Université Montpellier II, France and was awarded her PhD in Homogeneous Catalysis at the University of Exeter, UK, with Prof Robin Bedford. She has held postdoctoral positions at the Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, and at the Institut Français du Pétrole, France. In 2005, she obtained a CNRS-Chargée de Recherche position at the Université de Strasbourg.  She returned to the UK in 2009 to take up a position as EaStCHEM Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, where she is currently a Royal Society Research Fellow. Catherine’s research interests mainly focus on the development of homogeneous catalytic systems promoting organic reactions. Targeted applications are pharmaceutical, environmental and cosmetics.

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Phil graduated with a BSc from the University of Durham, UK, and was awarded his PhD from the same institution working with Prof. Vernon Gibson and Jas Pal Badyal. Following a post-doctoral stay with Prof. Guy Bertrand at the LCC Toulouse, France, he held a fixed term lectureship at Imperial College London, before taking up a full lectureship at the University of Leicester in 1996. In 2005 he returned to Durham University where he is now a Senior lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and, from October 2011, he will be the recipient of a Royal Society Industry Fellowship working in collaboration with Johnson Matthey Catalysts (Billingham, UK). Phil’s research interests broadly span the areas of synthetic inorganic chemistry, organometallic, organophosphorus and co-ordination chemistry with much of his research group’s work focusing on the preparation and characterisation of molecular transition metal complexes and functionalised organic and heteroatom-containing ligands for applications in catalysis.

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My experience ranges from later to early d-block elements, aspects of main-group chemistry and applications of molecular chemistry to materials science and catalysis. I was involved in setting up the MICRA meetings and it is pleasing to see that they are still a success, while my long-standing links with leading chemicals companies provide an awareness of issues facing the commercial membership of the RSC.

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Mike Hill graduated from the University of Bath (BSc and PhD) and, after taking up a Royal Society URF at the University of Sussex, was appointed to a lectureship at Imperial College London in 2002. He returned  to Bath as a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry in 2007 and has research interests rooted in synthetic inorganic chemistry applied to catalysis and materials applications.

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Ben Ward graduated in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham and a DPhil from the University of Oxford (Philip Mountford).  He subsequently worked as a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Oxford (Philip Mountford), an EU RTN Research Fellow in Strasbourg (Lutz Gade), a Marie Curie EIF Research Fellow in Heidelberg (Lutz Gade), and a Postdoctoral Researcher in CaRLa (Catalysis Research Laboratory) in Heidelberg.  He was appointed to his present position as lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Cardiff University in 2007.  His research interests are in the organometallic chemistry and catalytic applications of main group and early transition metal complexes.

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Peter graduated in Applied Chemistry from Salford and with a DPhil from Oxford. He was a Royal Society European Research Fellow in Konstanz and then a Ramsay and "1851" Fellow at Sussex. He has been at Warwick since 1997 and made professor in 2004. His research interests are in organometallics, catalysis, materials and chirality.

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Maurice Webb's career has involved R&D and new business creation roles in a number of companies (CIBA-Geigy, Laporte, Unilever, ICI, Ineos); with Government Knowledge Transfer schemes and currently as an independent consultant.  His primary interest is the industrial applications of materials chemistry, especially inorganics (e.g. silicas, zeolites, silicates, mixed metal hydroxides), in the consumer goods and chemicals-using industries (including healthcare, water and waste treatment, polymers, catalysts, toiletries and detergent and household products).

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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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Ronald Hage received his Masters (1986) and PhD (1991) in Inorganic Chemistry from Leiden University (The Netherlands).
He joined Unilever Research in The Netherlands in 1990 to study bleaches and stain bleaching catalysts for detergent applications. His interest focuses on the development of manganese and iron oxidation catalysis for applications in industry. These investigations have often been done in close collaboration with universities, such as the Stratingh Institute at Groningen University.
Since 2005 he has been involved in setting up a Unilever spin-out company, Rahu Catalytics, and in October 2009 he has joined Rahu Catalytics full time.

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Bob Tooze obtained a degree and PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College, London (the latter with Professor Geoffrey Wilkinson). He has worked in the chemical industry for 25 years, mainly for ICI, working in various businesses and locations but always in R&D. He joined Sasol Technology UK in 2002 as Research Director and was made Managing Director in 2004.
He is a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC), Scotland’s highest level science advisory body, which provides independent advice and recommendations on science strategy, policy and priorities to the Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland (CSA) and thus to the Scottish Government.
He has wide experience of collaborative research both nationally and internationally. He sits on the external advisory board of the Chemistry Department of Bristol University, on the Advisory Board for the new Centre for Sustainable Chemical Processes at Durham University, the Strategic Advisory Board of the DTC in Sustainable Chemical Technologies at Bath University and was also Chairman of the Industrial Board of IdeCat, an integrated Network of Excellence comprised of 40 of the leading Catalysis Laboratories in Europe, funded by the EU. He holds an Honorary Professorship in Chemistry at the University of St Andrews giving lecture courses in the field of catalysis.

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After his doctorate from MIT and postdoctoral positions at Berkeley and McMaster, Chris Orvig has been on faculty since 1984 at UBC Vancouver, in his native Canada, where he is Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences with research interests in medicinal inorganic chemistry. He chairs the editorial board of Dalton Transactions.

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