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Head of Department presentation
- 1. Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge John Pyle Chemistry Network Event, 29 September 2016 1
- 2. Department of Chemistry PhD Students 286 Undergraduate & Masters 913 Post Doctoral Researcher 194 Assistant, Technical, Support Staff 108 Academic Staff 51 Chemistry is at the centre of Cambridge Research
- 3. Academic staff: 51 of which 30 are professors We have a world leading research & teaching faculty 3
- 4. Our research blends fundamental and strategic themes Organised into 5 fundamental Research Interest Groups with 3 Strategic Themes § Chemistry of Health § Sustainable Energy, Environment and Climate § Innovative Molecular and Materials Design 4 Biological Materials Chemistry Physical & Atmospheric Synthetic Chemistry Theory
- 5. We support specialised and interdepartmental centres Specialised Laboratories § Melville Laboratory For Polymer Synthesis § Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Syngas Chemistry Interdepartmental Centres § Centre for Atmospheric Science § Pfizer Institute § BP Institute § Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre § Lennard-Jones Centre for Computational Materials Science § Nanoscience Centre § Cambridge Neuroscience § Algal Bioenergy Consortium § Energy@Cambridge network 5
- 6. 6 Leiden 2014QS RANKING 2016 RANKINGS: WHAT DO THEY MEAN? SHANGHAI 2014 Ranked 1st in 2014 UK `Research Excellence Framework’ (REF)
- 7. Journal No. of publications JACS 260 Angewandte Chemie 189 PNAS 112 Phys Rev Letters 54 Science 37 Nature (All) 79 Publica(ons in last 10 yrs.. 5048 publications Cited 136,902 times Average Citations per Item 27.12 In `top’ journals:
- 8. Our research receives high-profile recognition 8 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellows of the Royal Society Ali Alavi Chris Abell Shankar Balasubramanian Jane Clarke Chris Dobson Daan Frenkel Clare Grey Chris Hunter David Klenerman Steven Ley Ian Paterson John Pyle Jeremy Sanders David Wales European Research Council Awards Starting Grant Andreas Bender Matthew GauntMarkus Kalberer Tuomas Knowles Jonathan Nitschke Oren Scherman David Spring Silvia Vignolini Advanced Investigators Shankar Balasubramanian Daan Frenkel Clare Grey John Pyle David Wales Dominic Wright Chris Hunter David Klenerman Chris Abell Shankar Balasubramanian Jason Chin Jane Clarke Chris Dobson David Klenerman Steve Ley Spin out companies: 8 currently trading
- 9. 9 Some Academic Staff Prizes 2015-6 Ali Alavi Fellow of the Royal Society Gonçalo Bernardes RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize Jane Clarke Fellow of the Royal Society Jane Clarke The Stein and Moore Award Daan Frenkel Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal Daan Frenkel Boltzmann Medal Matt Gaunt ACS Arthur C Cope Scholar Award Clare Grey Arfvedson-Schlenk Award Chris Hunter Hon. Mem. Royal Irish Academy Rod Jones Royal Society of Chemistry, John Jeyes Award David Klenerman Royal Society Professorship Andrew Marsden RSC Emerging Tech Competition Jonathan Nitschke Japan Soc Coordination Chemistry Int Award Robert Phipps Royal Society URF John Pyle/Neil Harris NERC International Impact & Overall Impact Awards David Wales RSC Tilden Prize
- 10. Materials Chemistry at Cambridge Energy Production, Storage and Conversion Surfaces, Crystals and Catalysis Biomaterials Sensors and Transducers Self-assembling Functional Materials Chair of Materials RIG – Professor Jonathan Nitschke 10
- 11. Biological Chemistry at Cambridge Biophysical and spectroscopic studies of macromolecules Small molecule intervention in biological processes New biologically inspired catalysts, responsive materials and synthetic biology Chair of Biological Chemistry RIG – Dr Finian Leeper 11
- 12. Synthetic Chemistry & Catalysis at Cambridge Synthetic catalysis Synthetic assembly Synthetic biology & medicine Synthetic technology Synthetic materials Complex molecule synthesis Chair of Synthesis RIG – Professor Matthew Gaunt 12
- 13. Theory at Cambridge 13Chair of Theory RIG – Professor David Wales ScD, FRSC, FRS Chemoinformatics, small molecule property prediction, and semantic Quantum chemistry, DFT, computational surface science and electrochemistry Modelling of molecular crystals Reaction mechanisms Dynamics and thermodynamics of biomolecules and colloids Molecular recognition and drug design
- 14. Physical Chemistry at Cambridge Biophysics Atmospheric science Surface science Physical Chemistry of Materials Chair of Physical RIG – Professor Rod Jones 14
- 15. Chemistry of Health Building (completion 2018) 15