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The 2018 Hinshelwood Lectures
Professor Lydéric Bocquet from École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Soft Interfaces: A Journey Across Scales
The series of six lectures will be held at 2pm in weeks 1, 2 and 4 of Trinity Term in the Main Lecture Theatre in the ICL, more info. |
Athena SWAN Silver Award
The Department is delighted to announce that it has been granted an Athena SWAN silver award. The award recognizes the Department's commitment to addressing gender inequalities, to tackling the unequal representation of women in science, and to improving career progression for female academics.. more.
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Novartis Chemistry Lectureship 2016–2017
Professor Darren J Dixon has been awarded the 2016-2017 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship. The Lectureship is awarded to recognize outstanding research in the areas of organic and computational chemistry, including applications to biology. As part of the
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Highlighting innovation at Oxford
Broadcast on 13th January, Professor Angela Russell was interviewed for regional news programme BBC South Today. Co-founded by Prof. Steve Davies and Prof. Angela Russell, Oxford spin-out OxStem Ltd was highlighted as a major success story for Oxford
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Novel antibiotics from Oxford Chemistry Spin Out
The US Center for Disease control reported on Jan 13th the death of a woman who died from a bacterial infection "resistant to all available antimicrobial drugs". Such a high level of resistance is currently, thankfully, rare; however, the increase in
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Two Nature papers published this week from Dame Carol Robinson's group
Nature’s glue holds proteins in place for key functions. Fascinating structures of membrane proteins are emerging, and each one is being admired scientists for the intricacy of its construction. Meanwhile, the roles of much smaller molecules hidden
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Professor Dame Carol Robinson Inspires Primary School Pupils
BBC Oxford reports that Dame Carol gave an impromptu science lesson at a primary school after receiving a letter from 8 year old pupil Connie Gordon, who wrote "..when I grow up, I want to be a professor of Chemistry like you. I would love it if you
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Prospective Synthetic Chemistry DPhil Students: Oxford Chemistry has 20 funded DPhil positions available via the new EPSRC CDT in Synthesis for Biology & Medicine (SBM CDT). Please visit the website for more details and how to apply. Why Choose SBM? 
Prospective doctoral students in Theoretical and Computational
Chemistry: funded positions are available via the new EPSRC
Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Modelling in Chemical
Sciences (TMCS). Please see the TMCS website for further details,
including how to apply.
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Early and mid-Career Research Fellowships
The Department seeks to support fellowship applications from outstanding individuals who are at a career stage where a prestigious independent fellowship would offer the opportunity to develop their research identity and become a chemistry research leader of the future.
If you are interested in applying for any early career research fellowship to be hosted at Oxford Chemistry you must submit an expression of interest to the Department, the next deadline for submission is 23rd May 2018 further details can be found here. For more information please contact the research facilitator staff. |
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Teaching: Oxford
Chemistry offers world-class teaching, consistently rated among the best
in the UK. Students study a four-year course, a unique feature of which
is spending their final year working full-time on a project with some
of the leading researchers in the UK. more...
Periodic – the Department of Chemistry magazine. Issue 5
Outreach: Engaging schools
and the wider community in chemistry and science is an important activity
for academic staff and students in the Department. Oxford Chemistry regularly
hosts visits and events within the Department and takes part in local
and national activities to demonstrate chemistry’s central role in everyday
life. more...
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Research: Oxford is one of the
leading chemistry research departments in the world with around 80 academic
staff carrying out international-level research, and an annual research
income of around £15 million. According to the outcome of the REF 2014 assessment published Dec 18th 2014, 49% of the research profile submitted by Oxford Chemistry was regarded as 4* world-leading quality. The Department has not only the highest volume of 4* research of any UK Chemistry department- by some margin - but was also judged to have the top research environment. The Impact of the department’s research outside academia is also highly rated with over 55% in the 4* category.
The Department is currently engaged
in a number of innovative themes of work including: Catalysis; Sustainable Energy Chemistry; Advanced functional materials; Synthesis; Interfacial Science; Innovative Measurement and photon science; Chemistry at the interface with biology and medicine; Kinetics, dynamics and mechanism; Theory and modelling of complex systems more... |
EU Funded Training Centres:
Facilities: The department contains several small research facilities (SRFs), which are dedicated suites of equipment run by experts who aid in experimental design and optimisation. These facilities are some of the best equipped in the country, supporting chemical research and providing analysis for students within the Chemistry department, other departments within the University and industry alike. more...
Commercialisation: The Department has an unrivalled track record
in protecting and commercialising the innovative work of research staff.
Over £80 million in cash has been raised for the University as a result
of spin out activities from research carried out by Oxford chemists. more... |