Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

The main entrance of the Chemistry Department in Cambridge
Head of Department	John A Pyle
Academic staff	60
Location	Cambridge, United Kingdom
Website	www.ch.cam.ac.uk

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge is the chemistry department of the University of Cambridge. Research interests in the department cover a broad of chemistry ranging from molecular biology to geophysics.^[1] The department is located on the Lensfield Road, next to the Panton Arms on the South side of Cambridge. As of 2015 the department is home to around 200 postdoctoral research staff, over 250 postgraduate students, around sixty academic staff.^[2]

Research

The Department’s research is organised around five Research Interest Groups (RIGs):^[3]

• Biological Chemistry
• Materials Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry
• Synthetic Chemistry
• Theoretical Chemistry, Modelling and Cheminformatics

Senior Staff: Professors

As of 2015 the department employs 28 Professors^[2] including several Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) shown below:

Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci is John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology

Sir Alan Fersht FRS at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology is Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Peter Wothers, a teaching fellow in the department, delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2012.

1. Professor Chris Abell FMedSci^[4]
2. Professor Ali Alavi FRS
3. Professor Stuart Althorpe
4. Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS^[5][6][7]
5. Professor Jason Chin^[8]
6. Professor Jane Clarke FRS FMedSci^[9][10]
7. Professor Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci^[11]
8. Professor Stephen Elliott
9. Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS^[12]
10. Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS^[13]
11. Professor Matthew Gaunt
12. Professor Robert Glen
13. Professor Jonathan M. Goodman^[14]
14. Professor Clare Grey FRS^[15]
15. Professor Chris Hunter FRS^[16]
16. Professor Bill Jones
17. Professor Rod Jones
18. Professor David Klenerman FRS FMedSci
19. Professor Steven V. Ley FRS^[17]
20. Professor Jonathan Nitschke^[18]
21. Professor Ian Paterson FRS^[19]
22. Professor John A. Pyle FRS^[20]
23. Professor Jeremy Sanders FRS^[21]
24. Professor Michiel Sprik
25. Professor David Spring
26. Professor Michele Vendruscolo^[22]
27. Professor David Wales FRSC
28. Professor Dominic Wright

Emeritus Professors

The department is also home to fifteen emeritus professors,^[23] pursuing their research interests after their formal retirement including:

Sir David King (Emeritus) was Chief Scientific Adviser to the governments of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2000 to 2007.^[24]

Peter Murray-Rust (Emeritus) speaking at Wikimania 2014.

1. Professor Alan R. Battersby^[25]
2. Professor A. David Buckingham FRS^[26]
3. Professor Paul Davies
4. Professor Ian Fleming FRS^[27]
5. Professor Ray Freeman FRS^[28]
6. Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS^[29]
7. Professor Brian F. G. Johnson FRS^[30]
8. Professor David King FRS^[24][31]
9. Professor Tony Kirby FRS^[32]
10. Professor Jacek Klinowski^[33][34]
11. Professor Richard Lambert
12. Professor Ian Smith FRS^[35]
13. Professor Jim Staunton FRS^[36]
14. Professor Anthony Stone
15. Professor Brian Thrush

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