Ryan Clark

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Dr Ryan Clark

Departmental Lecturer in Practical Chemistry and Analytical Suite Manager

 

 

Responsibilities

Ryan Clark is the analytical suite manager specialising in practical physical and analytical chemistry, working within the Chemistry Teaching Laboratory. 

A large part of Ryan's work involves managing and maintaining the analytical suite instrumentation alongside demonstrating and supervising of second and third year practical physical chemistry..

Alongside this, another large responsibility Ryan has is modifying the practical chemistry course to ensure that the experiments are up to date in terms of the techniques which the students are learning, as well as making sure that the experiments are being run in a way that conforms to current safety standards and are relevant to the current research environment.

Biography

Ryan graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2016 with his final year research project in the group of Professor Pete Licence studying the surfaces of ionic liquids using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. He then moved to Imperial College London in and completed a PhD with Professor Tom Welton in 2020. During this he studied the properties of ionic liquids near electrodes using fluorescent imaging, x-ray scattering, and molecular dynamics. After this he moved to Lyon in order to work with Professor Agilio Padua until 2022, studying the capture and conversion of carbon dioxide in porous ionic liquids. He joined the Chemistry Teaching Lab in July 2022.

In his spare time Ryan enjoys cooking, playing video games, watching rugby, and going for long walks.

 

Publications

Contact

ryan.clark@chem.ox.ac.uk