Dr Thomas has won the award for his research into highly selective iron-catalyzed hydrofunctionalization of alkenes, particularly hydrocarboxylation, and the development of a suite of easily handled iron catalysts.
The Hickinbottom Award is for researchers under the age of 35 in the field of organic chemistry. Past winners include Harry Kroto, Fred Sanger and Linus Pauling. Dr Thomas will undertake a UK lecture tour as part of the prize.
Dr Nicholle Bell has been awarded a 3 years NERC Soil Security Fellowship
The Soil Security programme aims to advance understanding of the ability of soils to adapt to perturbations.
Nicholle plans to use the top-end high-resolution analytical techniques, NMR and FT ICR MS, to read the molecular signature of peat bogs and relate it to their status (pristine, damaged, in restoration). She has assembled a strong network of collaborators across Scotland to tackle peatland issues across several disciplines.
We are delighted to announce that two post-docs in the Lloyd-Jones Group have been awarded very prestigious fellowships.
Dr Alex Cresswell has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (at Manchester / Bath)
Dr Marc Reid has been awarded a Leverhulme fellowship (at Strathclyde)
We will be sad to see Alex and Marc leave, but the School is very pleased for them and wishes them both the very best for their future careers.
Katie Ember, from Dr Colin Campbell's group, and Lulu Tucker from Dr Dave Clarke's group were among the winners of the SCI Scotland PhD Student Competition.
They both wrote articles on their research that were ranked very highly by the judging panel and will receive complementary membership of SCI as a reward.
Dr Philip Camp has been recognised as a top reviewer for The Journal of Chemical Physics in 2015.
The journal had more than 8000 reviewers last year.
This is the second time Philip has received this award. The first time was in 2012.
Dr Alex Cresswell and Dr Marc Reid, both post-doctoral researchers in the Lloyd-Jones group, won prizes for their lectures at the 4th Royal Society of Chemistry Early Career Symposium, held at the University of Strathclyde, on 23rd June 2016.
Dr Cresswell was awarded the organic chemistry prize for his lecture titled ???Room Temperature Gold-Catalysed Arylation of Heteroarenes???
Congratulations to Dr Chris Mowat and his collaborators at Edinburgh and at GSK on being awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry Industry & Technology Award.
The Teamwork in Innovation Award, sponsored by Johnson and Johnson, recognises outstanding collaborations between industry and academia worldwide. Dr Mowat and GSK are involved in research to discover medicines for treatment of acute pancreatitis.
Dr Diana Leitch, a graduate from the School of Chemistry in 1969 (BSc) and 1972 (Ph.D.) has been awarded an MBE for services to chemistry in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. She is currently a trustee of the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre.
Congratulations to Dr Leitch!
The school PhD Prize Symposium took place on Friday 23rd May in the School of Chemistry. The symposium opened with the award of the Norma & Fraser Stoddart Prize to Dr Anne Thielbeer (n??e Hansen).
Established in honor of the late Prof. Seaborg, this award program is intended to bring to the Berkeley campus of the University of California an internationally acclaimed inorganic chemist to give lectures and to talk with students and faculty over the course of a week.
