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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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 Multi-year £3.3M Extension of Strategic Alliance with Summit Therapeutics
Summit Therapeutics plc have announced a multi-year extension of its exclusive strategic alliance with the research teams of Professor Steve Davies, Professor Angela Russell and Professor Dame Kay Davies (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
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 Pfizer Second Year Graduate Poster Symposium 2015
Congratulations to Martine Abboud, Sam Calderwood, Thomas Coxon and John Jolliffe on winning prizes at the poster session. The poster session followed the Pfizer Symposium talks by Dr Andrew Lawrence (University of Edinburgh), Dr David Blakemore (Worldwide
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 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2015
Prof Dame Carol Robinson and Prof Kylie Vincent have been named in the 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2015 report. Prof Vincent is tagged as a ‘Rising Star’. The 2015 report identifies 50 inspirational women in biobusiness in the UK who are
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 Highlighted on the Cover of PCCP
A perspective article written by the Brouard group and collaborators has appeared on the front cover of PCCP. The cover image was created by Karl Harrison. The perspective reviews progress made in the study of dynamical stereochemistry or 'stereodynamics',
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 GlaxoSmithKline Prizes 2015
GlaxoSmithKline Prizes 2015
The Department of Chemistry was very pleased to welcome Dr Pan Procopiou to present the GlaxoSmithKline Prizes to the award winners:
The GlaxoSmithKline Awards in Organic Chemistry Part II
David Ascough – 1st prize
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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...
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...