Chemistry

Dr Philip Ash

• Spectroscopy and electrochemistry of proteins and enzymes
• Metalloenzymes involved in chemical energy conversion
• Biomimetic systems for small molecule activation
• Technique development for biophysics and structural biology

Dr Richard Doveston

• Design, discovery and synthesis of bioactive small molecules
• Molecular glues to stabilise protein-protein interactions
• 14-3-3 proteins as drug targets

Dr James Hodgkinson

• The design and synthesis of heterobifunctional molecules
• Targeted protein degradation
• The synthesis and application of chemical probes for structural studies of epigenetic protein complexes
• Targeting epigenetic proteins with small molecules for drug discovery

Dr Richard Hopkinson

• Design, synthesis and biological testing of small molecule chemical tools and probes
• Development and application of small molecule quantification methods in biological samples
• Analysis of enzyme structures and activities
• Development of novel medicines

Professor Andrew Hudson

• Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of biological systems
• Raman microspectroscopy and optical tweezing in biology and aerosol research
• Applications of microfluidics in biology and medicine

Dr Kal Karim

• Computational design of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs).
• Design and development of polymers for the separation and purification for drug targets and environmental pollutants

Dr Elena Piletska

• Computational design, development and preparation of high-performance bespoke polymeric adsorbents for natural and synthetic compounds
• Development of signal molecule-sequestering polymers (SSPs) for the attenuation of quorum sensing
• Chloroplasts and their application in sensors and environmental monitoring
• Optimisation of the protocols for purification, separation and quantification of natural and synthetic compounds of interest

Professor Sergey Piletsky

• Biomimetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)
• Computational design and molecular modelling
• Bioanalytical chemistry - design of sensors and assays for clinical and environmental diagnostics
• Nanoparticles for diagnostics and therapeutic applications

Dr Kogularamanan (Rama) Suntharalingam

• Design abd development of anticancer metallopharmaceuticals
• Cancer stem cells and other chemotherapy resistance tumour sub-populations
• Immunotherapeutic small molecules
• Nanoparticles to deliver therapeutics to their sites of actions

Professor Andrew Abbott

• Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents
• Bioplastics
• Metal processing
• Mineral processing

Professor A. Robert Hillman

• Dynamics of polymer films
• Electroanalytical chemistry
• Structural studies of electroactive films
• Forensic science

Professor Karl Ryder

• Metal finishing from new ionic liquids
• Probe microscopy of electroactive services and thin film coatings
• Electronic and electroluminescent conducting polymers

Dr Stephen Ball

• Optical absorption spectroscopy measure trace gases in the atmospheric gases
• Cavity ringdown spectroscopy (CRDS)

Professor Andrew Ellis

• Laser Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry of Molecules, Ions and Clusters in Helium Nanodroplets
• Growing Nanoparticles in Helium Nanodroplets: A Route to New Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Ultra-fast Motion of Molecules in Quantum Fluids
• Laser Spectroscopy of Clusters and Complexes in Supersonic Jets
• Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry and its Applications 

Professor Paul Monks

• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Earth Observation Science
• Breath Analysis / Medical Diagnostics
• Business Facing Activities

Dr Shengfu Yang

• Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry of Molecules and Molecular Clusters in Superfluid Helium
• Synthesis of Novel Nanoparticles and Nanowires
• High-moment Magnetic Nanometerials for Imaging
• Novel Nanowires for Electrically Driven Nanowire Lasers
• Nanoparticles Embedded Plastics Materials
• Micro and Nano-Plastics in Living Organisms

Dr Sandy Kilpratrick

• Synthesis of multimetallic transition metal complexes
• Small molecule activation and catalysis
• Organometallic electrochemistry

Dr Fabrizio Ortu

• Group 2 and Rae Earth organometallic chemistry
• Lanthanide photocatalysis
• Small molecule activation

Dr Alex Pulis

• Synthetic methods
• Main group element in sythesis
• C-H functionalisation

Dr Gregory Solan

• Polymerisation catalysis
• Organobimetallic chemistry
• Hydrogenation/de-hydrogenation catalysis

Dr Alison Stuart

• New fluorinating reagents
• Hypervalent iodine(III) chemistry
• New synthetic methodology towards fluorinated heterocycles