Scoping Group

The Scoping Group met in April 2008 to discuss the big opportunities for the chemical sciences in the next 10 years. 

The highly diverse group of individuals challenged the preconceived priority areas and opened up a range of new possibilities. As a result the next stage of the process, the exploration groups, will now focus on eight questions including harnessing and storing energy from sunlight and replicating and learning from nature.

Scoping Group Participants

• Dr Elliot Finer
• Dr Colin Harrison, Chemistry Innovation
• Prof Graham Richards, Oxford University
• Dr John C Marriott, LGC
• Dr Steve Koonin, BP
• Dr John Dixon, AstraZeneca
• Dr Sarah Houlton, University of Cambridge
• Prof. Robert Socolow, Princeton, USA
• Shaun Kennedy, Infineum
• Dr Philippe Poirier, Reckitts
• Dr Lesley Thompson, EPSRC
• Prof Andrew Hamnett, University of Strathclyde
• Dr Aileen Allsop, AstraZeneca
• Prof. Giovanni Natile, EuCheMS and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studidi Bari, Italy
• Prof. Sir Colin Berry, Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry
• Dr Jeff Kipling, GSK
• Dr Chris Hill, Organon
• Prof. Mario Molina, Mario Molina Centre for the Studies of Energy and the Environment Strategy, Mexico