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 Hot Article and Front Cover for Hamilton Group research
Work from the Hamilton group has been featured as a ‘Hot Article’ on the front cover of Chemistry: A European Journal. The paper describes a modular synthetic route to non-peptidic beta-strand mimetics that are conformationally pre-organised to
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 The TMCS Prize
Congratulations to Jonathan Mannouch and Tim Wiles, who share this year's TMCS Prize for their outstanding performances in the year-1 TMCS training programme, which led to their award of a distinction in the MSc in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.
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 Silver Athena SWAN award
The department is delighted to announce that the Department of Chemistry was successful in its application for its Silver Athena SWAN award. This was the only Silver awarded to an MPLS department in this round of applications. The Athena SWAN programme
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 Top 2 for University of Oxford
The UK has 34 universities in the Times Higher Education ranking of the world's top 200 institutions. Oxford climbs to second place, while Cambridge and Imperial College London also make the top 10 in fourth and eighth places respectively. The tables
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 New TMCS CDT 2015 cohort
TMCS second cohort have arrived and attended a welcome afternoon on 30th September, to meet the leadership team and have an informal induction. The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training aim is to transform PhD training in theoretical and computational chemistry,
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Open Access via ORA – the Oxford University Research Archive
ORA provides a home for Oxford's research outputs. Copyright-permitting, full-text copies of the University's publications are made available open access via ORA. |
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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...
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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...