Our People

Academic Staff

Name	Title
Professor Jan Verlet	Head of Department
Dr Keith Andrews	Assistant Professor
Professor Jas Pal Badyal	Professor
Professor Colin Bain	Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor Ian Baxendale	Director of Education
Dr Simon Beaumont	Associate Professor
Professor Andrew Beeby	Professor
Professor Tim Blower	Visiting Associate Professor
Dr Stefan Borsley	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Will Brittain	Associate Professor
Dr Patrycja Brook	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Professor Martin Bryce	Professor
Professor Martin Cann	Visiting Professor
Dr David Carty	Associate Professor
Dr Peter Chivers	Visiting Associate Professor
Professor Steven Cobb	Professor
Dr Pippa Coffer	Director of Teaching
Professor Sharon Cooper	Professor
Dr Stephen Cox	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Emeritus Professor Michael Crampton	Emeritus Reader
Professor Aurora Cruz Cabeza	Professor
Professor Paul Denny	Professor
Dr Karrera Djoko	Visiting Assistant Professor
Professor Philip Dyer	Professor
Professor John Evans	Professor
Professor Ivana Evans	Professor
Dr Mark Fox	Assistant Professor
Dr Allegra Franchino	Assistant Professor
Dr Jemma Gibbard	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Amy Hall	Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Professor Paul Hodgkinson	Professor
Professor David Hodgson	Professor
Judith Howard	Emeritus Professor
Dr Andrew Hughes	Associate Professor
Professor Jeremy Hutson	Professor
Dr Karen Johnston	Associate Professor
Professor Ritu Kataky	Professor
Dr Matthew Kitching	Royal Society University Research Fellow and Associate Professor
Dr Clare Mahon	Associate Professor
Jennifer Maunder	Lecturer
Dr Litka Milian	Assistant Professor
Dr Mark Miller	Associate Professor
Dr John Mina	Visiting Research Associate
Dr Katherine Norman	Assistant Professor in Chemistry (Education)
Professor Ann O'Donoghue	Professor
Dr Luke O'Driscoll	Assistant Professor in Chemistry (Education)
Professor Robert Pal	Professor
Dr Lars- Palsson	Associate Professor
David Parker	Emeritus Professor
Professor Ehmke Pohl	Director of Impact
Professor Nigel Robinson	Visiting Professor
Professor Jacquie Robson	Professor
Dr Petja Rosenqvist	Royal Society Newton International Fellow
Dr John Sanderson	Associate Professor
Dr Christian Schnepel	Assistant Professor
Professor Jonathan Steed	Professor
Professor Patrick Steel	Professor
Dr Russell Taylor	Associate Professor
Dr Richard Thompson	Associate Professor
Professor David Tozer	Professor
Dr James Walton	Associate Professor
Andrew Whiting	Emeritus Professor
Professor Gareth Williams	Professor
Professor Mark Wilson	Professor
Dr Eckart Wrede	Associate Professor

Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Sophie Clough	Research Associate
Dr Genevieve Duche	Research Associate
Dr Stefanie Freitag Pohl	Assistant Professor (Research)
Matthew Frye	Research Associate
Mohammad Hamidi	Research Assistant
Dr Rachel Hendrikse	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr David King	Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence
Dr Ruth Le Sueur	Research Fellow
Carissa Lloyd	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Anju Massey-Brooker	Professor in Practice
Bijit Mukherjee	Academic Visitor
Dr Horst Puschmann	Professor in Practice
Dr Catriona Sellick	Research Associate
Lloyd Shaw	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Matthieu Starck	KTP Associate
Dr Emma Tarrant	Research Associate
Dr Lisong Yang	Research Associate
Dr Andrea Zachariou	Research Associate

Business Process and People Services

Name	Title
Jim Fraser	Department Manager
Nicola Bramfitt	Learning and Teaching Manager
Nyla Drisdale-Gordon	Levelling Up Officer
Beth French	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Rachel Jackson	Finance Coordinator
Erika Jacques	Operations Administrator
David James	Finance Officer
Jackie Mckenna	SOFI CDT Manager
Paul Reynolds	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Helene Rusby	Finance Manager
Megan Smith	Postgraduate Coordinator
Andy Walker	Senior Research Administrator
Emma Worden	MoSMed CDT Manager
Lynn Young	Learning and Teaching Coordinator

Technical Teaching Research Services

Name	Title
Dr Juan Aguilar Malavia	Head of Solution State NMR Service
Kelvin Appleby	Electronics Workshop
Beth Beck	Health and Safety Technical Manager
Dr Toby Blundell	Senior Experimental Officer
William Carswell	Research Services/Waste Disposal
Dr Aileen Congreve	Senior Research Officer
Ashley Davenport	Technical Officer
Dr Bryan Denton	Supervisor, Electronics Workshop
Ian Edwards	Biochemistry
Claire Fairish	Laboratory Attendant
Catherine Heffernan	NMR liquid-state
Paul Hofmann	Undergraduate teaching & Facilities Manager
Robert Holmes	Supervisor, Mechanical Workshop
Dr Eric Hughes	Experimental Officer
Emma Knighton	Supervisor, Undergrad. lab.
Antony Newman	Senior Technician
Gary Oswald	Research Services
Dr Samuel Page	Manager Solid State - NMR Research Service
Monik Panchal	Technical Manager for the Durham X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Facility
Dr David Parker	Mass Spec
Dr Natalie Pridmore	Senior Experimental Officer
Alison Reid	Laboratory Attendant
Malcolm Richardson	Supervisor, Glassblowing Workshop
Dr Connor Sibbald	Senior Technical Manager
Alice Smith	Laboratory Attendant
Mr Gary Southern	Stores maintenance
Peter Stokes	Experimental Officer, Mass Spec
Rebecca Sweeney	Assistant Technician
Dr Emily Unsworth	Elemental Analysis
Paul White	Mechanical Workshop Technician

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

EDI is fundamental to a supportive, progressive and successful Department. Our Chemistry EDI Committee, is responsible for promoting best practice in everything we do.

Find out more about our EDI community

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Find out more about life as a Chemistry student at Durham

Student life

Our facilities and equipment

Our facilities include a recognised centre of excellence in crystallography and state-of-the art equipment for powder diffraction.

Our facilities and equipment