Experts

Chemistry

Professor Jonathan Hirst

Computational approaches to modelling the shape and motion of proteins and the computer-aided design of potential new drug compounds. The computer methods employed include: quantum chemistry; simulation bioinformatics; neural networks; and statistics.
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Chemistry Science chemistry quantum statistics neural networks bioniformatics Science computational
Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff

Green chemistry and approaches to sustainable chemistry. Clean chemical processing and reactions. Supercritical fluids, particularly supercritical carbon dioxide and supercritical water.
Brexit Chemistry Science chemistry
Associate Professor Jonathan McMaster

The role of metal centres in biology that catalyse important biological transformations - understanding how nature uses the properties of metals to achieve specific biological tasks.
+44 (0) 115 951 3498
Chemistry Science chemistry biology Metals Catalyse Transformations
Miriam O'Duill

Chemistry
Professor Neil Thomas

Anti-cancer drugs targeting. Development of anti-tuberculosis drugs. Protein engineering and creation of antibody mimics. Biological catalysis and its applications to chemistry and medicine. Development of new bioluminescence and fluorescence enzyme assays. Development of new nucleic acid aptamers as antibody substitutes.
+44 (0) 115 951 3565
Chemistry Science chemistry cancer drug tuberculosis protein Engineering enzyme antibody
Professor Steven Howdle

Clean chemistry. Clean synthesis of polymers/plastics.
+44 (0) 115 951 3486
Chemistry Science Science chemistry clean synthesis polymers plastics
Dr Panos Soultanas

Potential anti-microbial targets for the development of new antibiotics. The molecular mechanism of action of enzymes involved in the replication of DNA. DNA helicases, the enzymes that unwind the double helix and allow access to genetic information locked within the sequences of the bases.
+44 (0) 115 951 3525
Chemistry Science chemistry Anti- microbial antibiotics enzymes DNA genetics
Dr Richard J Wheatley

Quantum chemistry. Computers in chemistry. Mathematics in chemistry.
+44 (0) 115 951 3454
Chemistry Science chemistry quantum computers Maths Mathematics
Dr June McCombie

Molecular astrophysics involving both observational spectroscopy and the modelling of molecules and dust in interstellar, stellar, circumstellar, nebular and cometary media. High resolution laser spectroscopic studies of large and small clusters of molecules at very low temperatures. Worked closely with the Institute of Physics on their Diversity Programme, ex-chair Project Juno.
+44 (0) 115 951 3551
Chemistry Science chemistry Astrophysics molecules Internstellar Physics