Philip Mountford is Emeritus Professor of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis at the University of Oxford, and is formerly a Tutorial Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry at St Edmund Hall. He gained his D.Phil degree at Oxford and Balliol College under the supervision of Professor MLH Green (1990). He remained in Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, and in 1992 moved directly to his first independent faculty position at the University of Nottingham. In 1998 he returned to Oxford and St Edmund Hall. He is an author of ca. 270 articles and patents (H index 56) and has supervised 50 PhD students and numerous postdoctoral researchers and undergraduate Masters students. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 1998 and has received several national and international awards and guest professorships. In particular, he received the RSC Organometallic Chemistry (Frankland) Award for 2012 and 2013, and is also a former recipient of the RSC's Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship (1998 and 1999) for organometallic chemistry. He has held Visiting Professorships at the Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, the University of Bordeaux, the University of Tübingen and the University of Heidelberg. He has contributed to the general academic community within the University and the RSC. In particular, he was successively Executive Deputy/Acting Head and then Head of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford from 2008 to 2016. From 2012 to 2015 he was Chairman of the Editorial Board of Dalton Transactions, and Chairman of the Editorial Board of Specialist Periodical Reports from 2016 to 2018. He also served on the Dalton Division Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2012 to 2015. He retired from the department in the summer of 2023 while continuing to teach at St Edmund Hall until September 2024. He was elected as an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall in October 2023.
