Council Members

Robin Perutz has research interests in organometallics and their photochemistry, reaction mechanisms and spectroscopy. Topics of his publications include small molecule activation, sigma complexes, photo-induced electron transfer, structure and kinetics of reaction intermediates. He has served as Head of Department in York (2000-2004) and was Tilden lecturer in 1992/3 and Nyholm Lecturer (2005/6).

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Peter has held the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh for nine years, having previously been a Company Research Associate in ICI and Zeneca with responsibility for co-ordination chemistry. Research interests include a range of applications ligand design to metal recovery and surface engineering.

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Cristina Lagunas obtained her first Degree and PhD in the University of Murcia (Spain) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). After three years in a temporary lectureship in Madrid, she was appointed a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry in Queen’s University Belfast (2001). Her current research focuses on luminescent metal complexes, in particular gold, and on molecular sensors. She is also involved in multidisciplinary research in electrochemistry and catalysis in ionic liquids.

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Dave obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of Wales, Cardiff and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universities of Arizona and York. In 1986 he joined the AFRC /BBSRC Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, Sussex, which was relocated to the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich in 1995. He is now a Project Leader in the Department of Biological Chemistry at JIC and an Honorary Reader in the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia. His research interests include coordination chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry and bionanoscience.

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Malcolm obtained his Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Edinburgh, and undertook post-doctoral work in the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS (Toulouse) and at Indiana University. After four years as a Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, in 1998 he moved to the University of Leeds where he is now Reader. His research involves the synthesis and physical characterisation of functional coordination compounds, and metal/organic supramolecular chemistry.

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Peter graduated in Applied Chemistry from Salford and with a DPhil from Oxford. He was a Royal Society European Research Fellow in Konstanz and then a Ramsay and "1851" Fellow at Sussex. He has been at Warwick since 1997 and made professor in 2004. His research interests are in organometallics, catalysis, materials and chirality.

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My experience ranges from later to early d-block elements, aspects of main-group chemistry and applications of molecular chemistry to materials science and catalysis. I was involved in setting up the MICRA meetings and it is pleasing to see that they are still a success, while my long-standing links with leading chemicals companies provide an awareness of issues facing the commercial membership of the RSC.

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I have had a long standing interest in both organic and inorganic chemistry, having completed research projects in both areas.  I received my BSc Hons degree from the University of Sussex (1996-99) and my D.Phil entitled “Synthesis and catalytic applications of nickel and palladium N-heterocyclic carbine complexes” under the supervision of Professor Geoff Cloke (2001-2004). I have been involved in a number of research projects including a GSK funded research project into nickel catalysed nitrile reductions (1999 -2001), a PDRA post under the supervision of Professor Steve Caddick at UCL, in metal catalysed synthesis of small molecules for applications in chemical biology ( 2004-2006) and most recently have initiated an independent research career focusing on the synthesis of bio-inspired {NiFe}-hydrogenase active sites- Ramsay fellowship (2006-2008) and a RCUK fellowship (2007-2012).

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Neil Champness is the Professor of Chemical Nanoscience at the University of Nottingham. His research concerns many aspects of molecular organisation and supramolecular chemistry, notably nanostructure formation on surfaces and in solution, crystal engineering and coordination polymer synthesis.

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Martin Partridge is employed by Johnson Matthey in Royston as the Technology Manager for the Global Chemical Catalysts business.  Following a DPhil at York in Organometallic chemistry and a Royal Society postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sydney he joined ICI in 1995.  In 2002 he transferred to Johnson Matthey on the acquisition of Synetix, the catalyst division of ICI. He has held a number of technical roles in both organisations.

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After his doctorate from MIT and postdoctoral positions at Berkeley and McMaster, Chris Orvig has been on faculty since 1984 at UBC Vancouver, in his native Canada, where he is Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences with research interests in medicinal inorganic chemistry. He chairs the editorial board of Dalton Transactions.

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