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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
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 Jacqueline Tan wins OXFEST Poster Prize
Jacqueline Tan - Paton research group - has won a poster prize at the OxFEST Annual Conference - STEMpower Her: Together We Rise! The conference aimed to give ways to harness and share individual strengths and experiences in order to collectively lift
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 Physical chemistry of protein evolution
Research from the Benesch group is published in Science today, determining mechanisms by which proteins evolve selectivity in assembly. In collaboration with the University of Massachusetts, the group has revealed that evolution achieves selectivity
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 Lilly Prizes for Excellence in Organic Chemistry Research 2017
The Lilly Prizes for Excellence in Organic Chemistry Research are awarded by Eli Lilly and Company Ltd. They are awarded for excellence in the first year of postgraduate study and are assessed on the quality of experimental work, written submission
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 A new spinout company to transform plastic waste into sustainable fuels
Oxford University Innovation has launched Oxford Sustainable Fuels, a new company that aims to reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste. The technology, based on research by Oxford chemists Professor Peter Edwards, Dr Tiancun Xiao and Dr Zhaoxi
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 Developing Safer Cancer Treatments
Professor Chris Schofield, Head of Organic Chemistry, together with Profs. Peter McHugh (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
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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. |
Prospective Synthetic Chemistry DPhil Students: Oxford Chemistry has 20 funded DPhil positions available via the new EPSRC CDT in 
Prospective doctoral students in Theoretical and Computational
Chemistry: funded positions are available via the new EPSRC
Centre for Doctoral Training in 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...
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...