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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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The 2018 Hinshelwood Lectures
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 Women in Science Series
Professor Angela Russell is currently featured on Oxford ScienceBlog’s Women in Science series. She was interviewed about her career in science and entrepreneurship as part of International Women in Science Day 2017. As Associate Professor of Organic
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 RSC/SCI Retrosynthesis Competition 2017: 3rd Prize
Jonathan Golec, Jessica Reynolds, Richard Surgenor and Jimmy Wang won the 3rd prize at the 4th National Retrosynthesis Competition 2017. The 1st year SBM CDT students presented their route to Eucalrobusone D in London last Friday. Ten teams were selected
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 RSC Poster Book Prize: Advances in Drug Discovery 2017
Congratulations to Moses Moustakim (3rd SBM CDT student) for winning a prize for his poster entitled ‘Discovery of a PCAF Bromodomain Chemical Probe’. This prize was awarded at the Advances in Drug Discovery conference on 7th March at the Wellcome
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 MPLS Division Thesis Commendation
DPhil student Martine Abboud, St John’s College, has been awarded a thesis commendation from the MPLS Division. Her work focused on the use of a wide range of ligand-observe and protein-observe NMR techniques, and other biophysical methods, to study
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 Nature Chemistry Paper
A new catalyst for hydro-deoxygenation of biomass derived molecules to compounds of higher energy content based on Co atom doped single molecular layer MoS2 without any loss of sulphur in H2 is shown by Tsang group in collaboration with Oxford Materials.
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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...