Staff in the Department of Chemistry

Head of Department: Dr John McKendrick

Academic staff

Name	Position	Research interests
Dr Silvia Baldanza	Lecturer in Foundation Chemistry
Dr Adam Bromley	Lecturer Placements and Careers Officer
Dr Mauricio Cafiero	Lecturer in Physical Chemistry School Lead for Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality	Quantum Chemistry, Machine Learning and AI methods in protein-ligand interactions and drug design
Professor Christine Cardin	Professor of Crystallography Culture Champion on the Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality (WIDE) Committee	Crystallography and structure determination of nucleic acids, ligands binding to nucleic acids, G-quadruplexes and other noncanonical structures
Dr Candyce Clark	Associate Professor of Chemistry Education Department Director of Teaching and Learning	Chemistry education, medicinal chemistry and the development of new metal-based drugs, bioinorganic chemistry
Dr James Cooper	Lecturer in Organic Chemistry Departmental Director for Postgraduate Studies	Supramolecular chemistry, lipid membranes, conformational dynamics, stimuli-responsive macromolecules, functional materials, molecular machines
Professor Rainer Cramer	Professor of Mass Spectrometry and Bioanalytical Sciences Head of the Organic, Biological and Analytical Chemistry Research Section Chemistry Representative on the School Research Ethics Committee	Mass spectrometry, proteomics, clinical diagnostics, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI), analytical chemistry, biomarkers, high-throughput screening (HTP) analysis, systems biology
Dr James Hallett	Lecturer in Physical Chemistry International Tutor	Electrolytes, extremophile life, energy storage, liquid structure, soft matter, self-assembly, X-ray and neutron scattering, nanoscience
Professor Ian Hamley	Diamond Professor of Physical Chemistry	Soft matter, self-assembly, nanoscience, polymers, peptides, biomaterials, X-ray and neutron scattering, rheology, circular dichroism
Professor Wayne Hayes	Professor of Polymer Chemistry	Functional and reactive polymers, self-assembled polymers, healable polymer networks, self-immolative polymers, degradable polymers, polymer inks for 2D and 3D printing, polymer synthesis
Dr Jessica Kirwin-Gusthart	Lecturer in Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Admissions Tutor	Green chemistry in chemical education, chemistry education, carbohydrate chemistry, chemo-enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates, carbohydrate active enzymes
Dr John McKendrick	Head of Department Associate Professor in Bio-Organic Chemistry	Synthetic organic chemistry, Mass spectrometry
Dr Michael M. Piperakis	Lecturer in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department Director of Academic Tutoring	Chemistry education; Nucleic acid & bioinorganic chemistry: nucleic acid canonical and non-canonical structures (e.g. G-quadruplexes), interactions of ruthenium complexes with nucleic acids
Dr Nikita Sachdev	Lecturer in Physical Chemistry	Chemistry education and AI in learning, self-assembly of nanomaterials and energy storage
Dr Dan Skelson	Lecturer in Foundation Chemistry
Dr Chris Smith	Lecturer in Organic Chemistry Part 4 Year Tutor	Synthesis, photochemistry, flow chemistry, natural products, nuclear separations using minor actinide selective ligands, organometallics, catalysts
Dr Paz Vaqueiro	Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry	Materials, solid state chemistry, thermoelectric materials, microporous solids, photovoltaic materials
Dr Ben Woolley	Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry Assessment Lead	Chemistry education, curriculum design, molecular imaging, bioinorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry of transition metals and lanthanides, organometallic chemistry, catalysis

Administrative staff

Name	Position
Sophie Hill	Executive Administration Officer
Isaac Wilks	Postgraduate Administrator

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