News
All the latest news from the School.
As part of National Science and Engineering week (15th – 24th March 2013), a team of volunteers from the School of Chemistry recently ran a series of chemistry workshops in secondary schools across South Wales.
The School of Chemistry is pleased to announce this year’s THRIVE Experience Winners.
Professor Rudolf Allemann of the School of Chemistry has been elected as a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Max Feller, a year 2 student in the School of Chemistry has won the “Low Carbon Undergraduate of the Year Award”, sponsored by EDF Energy.
On Friday 8th March the School of Chemistry hosted a Royal Society of Chemistry Prize and Award symposium on behalf of the Dalton Division.
Data from UCAS indicates that Cardiff University has seen a significant increase in the number of applications to study. The School of Chemistry has seen the most dramatic rise (51%) in applications.
A new polymer developed by researchers at Cardiff may lead to more efficient large-scale separation of gas mixtures for chemical engineering and energy generation.
A £498K grant has been awarded to Dr. Damien Murphy by EPSRC to develop a high pressure Electron Paramagnetic Resonance system in the School of Chemistry.
Dr Jennifer Edwards is the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Clara Immerwahr award.
Wednesday 7th November saw the second Science Careers fair take place with around 300 students from the Schools of Bioscience and Chemistry attending.
Dr Karen Wilson, Prof Adam Lee and their Science Heritage Programme funded PhD student Rachel Walker have recently investigated the potential of hydrophobic surface coatings as protection for the cathedral walls and grotesques.
Five permanent academic positions (chair/reader/senior lecturer/lecturer) are available in Cardiff School of Chemistry.
The School of Chemistry is pleased to announce the following recipients of this year’s International Postgraduate Scholarships.
Professor Adam Lee has been awarded £221k as part of a £1.2M collaborative EPSRC grant entitled "Solar fuels via engineering innovation".
Dr Karen Wilson has been awarded a major grant under the NSF-EPSRC International Collaboration in Chemistry programme to work on catalytic conversion of biomass to fuels.
The School of Chemistry is very proud to award students University Scholarships and the University also awards Naim Dangoor Scholarships to students from the School of Chemistry.
We would like to offer our congratulations to our 2012 graduating class.
The Cardiff Catalysis Institute has received a major University investment in its search for faster, cleaner and more economic industrial processes.
In Munich at the 15th International Congress on Catalysis Professor Hutchings will deliver the Heinz Heinemann Award lecture.
On Friday 15th June 2012, the School of Chemistry hosted a special one-day symposium to celebrate the contribution that organic chemistry makes to society and to mark the career of Professor Keith Smith, who will retire later this year.
On Friday 15th June 2012, the School of Chemistry will host a special one-day symposium to celebrate the contribution that organic chemistry makes to society and to mark the career of Professor Keith Smith, who will retire later this year.
The School of Chemistry recently hosted the latest in a long-running series of annual conferences, with a number of distinguished external speakers presenting work spanning the broad spectrum of chemistry.
James Robinson, presented his research at the Royal Society of Chemistry's Theoretical Chemistry Group annual Graduate Student Meeting on 9 May, and was awarded the Coulson Prize for the best talk at the meeting.
Professor Adam Lee has been awarded the 2012 Beilby Medal and Prize.
The School of Chemistry is pleased to announce that the Chemistry Society has won "Most Improved Society" at the Cardiff Students Union Society Awards.
PhD students Brendan Rowan and Ryan Sharpe from Cardiff School of Chemistry travelled to Builth Wells on Wednesday 14th March to take part in a Chemistry at Work event.
The role of protein motions in enzyme catalysis is a key issue in modern enzymology.
In association with the Cardiff University Distinguished Lecture, given by Professor Michael Grätzel on 22nd March 2012, a half-day symposium on Advances in Solar Energy took place in the Cardiff School of Chemistry.
Dr. Nida Ambreen, a postdoctoral fellow from Pakistan, has won one of the prestigious Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowships to work with Prof. Thomas Wirth.
The Cardiff High Field NMR Facility in the School of Chemistry has opened its doors on 1 March 2012.
The Cardiff Chemistry Conference will be held in the School of Chemistry on 14th - 15th May 2012.
Professor John Harries, the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales' gave a presentation on the Welsh government's newly announced Science Strategy.
The School of Chemistry recently hosted a laboratory-based event, welcoming around eighty A-level pupils from eight different Welsh medium schools from across Wales.
The School of Chemistry recently hosted a Discover! Saturday Club event, welcoming around thirty Year 9 level female pupils from eight different schools across South East Wales.
A £550k grant has just been awarded by BBSRC to staff in the School of Chemistry.
A microreactor for electrochemical synthesis has been designed and fabricated in the group of Professor Thomas Wirth.
The Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) has been investigating catalytic routes for upgrading the stream of low value C7-C12 alkanes from natural gas and biomass into much more useful chemicals.
Sarah Adams, a third year PhD student in the chemistry department under the supervision Prof. Rudolf K. Allemann, will represent all UK postgraduate students by touring India as part of a Royal Chemistry Society delegation.
A £440K grant has been awarded by BBSRC to staff in the Schools of Chemistry and Medicine. The award, entitled “Controlling cell death and proliferation with encodable visible light responsive proteins” was awarded to Professor Rudolf Allemann and Professor Gerald Richter in the School of Chemistry.
A research team involving Drs Niek Buurma and Simon Pope, together with collaborators at the University of Bath, has been awarded research funding under the Bio-E Initiative for a multi-disciplinary project aiming at enhancing electrochemical DNA biosensing.
Collaborative research from Drs Ian Fallis, Simon Pope, Peter Griffiths and Alison Paul has been highlighted in the ISIS annual review document. ISIS is a muon and neutron source facility based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Congratulations to Tomos Edwards, a year 4 MChem student in the School of Chemistry, who has been awarded one of the prestigious 2011 Salters' Prizes in Chemistry.
Visitors to Techniquest’s Science of Me event at the end of November had the chance explore the chemistry of the body.
The School of Chemistry is pleased to announce the winners of various prizes awarded each year to those students excelling in differing areas of the undergraduate course.
A new reference book, edited by Thomas Wirth, on Organoselenium Chemistry has been published recently (Nov. 2011).
Dr Phil Davies & Prof Gary Attard from the School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Dr Steven Barker from Earth Sciences have been awarded a studentship by NERC
The School of Chemistry is very proud to award students University Scholarships and the University also awards Naim Dangoor Scholarships to students from the School of Chemistry.
Mesele Oluwaseun is the winner of the University’s Commonwealth Scholarship, joining the School of Chemistry after beating off competition from across all academic disciplines.
On Saturday 17th Sept, the University welcomed visitors to explore the history and architecture of the University buildings, to exhibit our research, and to give a taste of what actually goes on inside!
Self-inflating balloons, multi-coloured markers and amazing red cabbage were just three of the hands-on experiments at Techniquest on Saturday 23rd July.
Cardiff academics Drs Pete Griffiths and Alison Paul, in collaboration with Dr Dave Adams at Liverpool,, are utilizing SANS to elucidate the structure-activity relationships between the nano- and macro-scale structures of novel self-assembling protein gels
The Cardiff School of Chemistry was pleased to host the annual M4Colloids Group one-day meeting on 21st July.
1st Year Postgraduate student Clare Morton has been awarded the prestigious Welsh Livery Guild
We would like to offer our congratulations to our 2011 graduating class.
Professor Thomas Wirth has been appointed to the position of co-chair of the editorial advisory board of 'ChemistryOpen'.
A team led by Professor Rudolf Allemann in the School of Chemistry has been awarded a research grant of £550K.
A new technique which targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria and shields patients from the toxic aspects of the antibiotic drug has been developed by University scientists.
Dr Mark Elliott, a senior lecturer in organic chemistry, has been appointed to the editorial board of Heterocyclic Communications and Heterocyclic Letters.
Professor Graham Hutchings has been awarded The Chemical Society of France (SCF) 2011 SCF French-British Prize.
Groundbreaking work from Cardiff University has been chosen as one of the most important research projects currently taking place in universities.
University research may help to improve the way that metal nanoparticles are used in catalysis.
Research by Chris Parlett, Adam Lee and Karen Wilson from the School of Chemistry, and their collaborators at York and Leeds, has been featured in the Science and Technology concentrates section of the ACS magazine Chemical & Engineering News.
On Wednesday 4th May the School of Chemistry hosted the annual Salters’ Festival of Chemistry, welcoming sixty Year 7 and 8 pupils from fifteen different schools from across Wales.
Work by Dr Peter Griffiths of the School of Chemistry, along with collaborators has earned the SARTRE Science Team Award for 'best interdisciplinary dynamics'.
Two members of the School of Chemistry based in the Cardiff Catalysis Institute have been awarded prizes from the International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) based in the US.
The Cardiff Spring Conference was held in the School of Chemistry on 16th – 17th May 2011
Professor Adam Lee has been awarded the 2011 McBain Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry and Royal Society of Chemistry for his contributions to colloid and surface science.
Eight members of the School of Chemistry have been elected as fellows of the Learned Society of Wales in the Society's inaugural election cycle (Professors Bowker, Carpenter, Cavell, Harris, Knight, Knowles, Roberts and Smith).
Work from the Cardiff School of Chemistry, led by Professor Barry Carpenter in the Physical Organic Chemistry Centre, has revealed a new strategy to make an "artificial leaf".
Dr Karen Wilson has been awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship to work with Johnson Matthey over the next four years to nano-engineer a new generation of heterogeneous catalysts for biofuel production.
Cardiff recently hosted a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Faraday Division Awards Symposium, sponsored by the South East Wales Local Section of the RSC at which three leading physical chemists presented their research.
Dr Alison Paul has been interviewed for a member profile article in the latest edition of the SCI publication Chemistry and Industry.
Work by Mike Coogan and Flora Thorp-Greenwood from the School of Chemistry, along with collaborators from Bioscience, has been featured in the research news section of the RSC magazine Chemistry World.
BBC Radio Wales reporter Adam Walton visited Cardiff University's School of Chemistry and heard about the recently opened Cardiff Catalysis Institute and the Flash Bang Wallop roadshow which will be going on the road for this, the International Year Of Chemistry.
The paper, entitled: Importance of single molecular determinants in the fidelity of expanded genetic codes, is on the role of fidelity in incorporating nonnatural amino acids is available online at the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, USA.
The School of Chemistry is participating in the rollout of the University Environmental Management System.
Work recently published in Science, from the group of Professor Graham Hutchings, shows how gold-palladium nanoparticles can be used for the highly selective oxidation of the C-H bond in toluene.
Work from Simon Pope’s research group has been selected for a special issue of the RSC journal Chemical Communications.
Dr Mark Elliott, Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemistry, and Dr Romina Carabott of the University of Glamorgan and Expert Forensics recently gave public lectures about forensic science at events organised by the Glamorgan Women’s Institutes.
In recognition of his ground-breaking work in the field of catalysis, Professor Graham Hutchings FRS has been invited to become a member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) - an international association of experts from all disciplines who are leaders in their own subject areas.
The Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) has been formally opened by Professor Robert Grubbs, the 2005 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
The Leverhulme Trust have funded a £151K research project over three years, led by Dr. Ben Ward to investigate and develop new catalysts based upon calcium complexes.
Nick Tomkinson from the School of Chemistry has been awarded £1.6M from the EPSRC with additional support of up to £1.3M from GlaxoSmithKline to develop selective molecular tool compounds for use in the discovery of innovative molecular targets for respiratory disease.
Kevin Jones from the School of Chemistry has won first prize in the SCI Fine Chemicals Group 21st “Graduate Symposia for novel organic chemistry”.
Prof Mike Bowker & Dr Phil Davies are part of a team spearheaded by Prof Parkes that have been awarded a grant of £650k to investigate the generation of hydrogen by microorganisms that are present under the Earth’s surface at depths of up to ~3 km.
Researchers within the Cardiff Catalysis Institute of the School of Chemistry will be working with the newly announced HPC for Wales facility to improve our understanding of the atomic scale processes responsible for catalytic activity.
Professor Graham Hutchings has been appointed as the new chair of the UK’s Science Community Representing Education (SCORE).
Scientists in the School of Chemistry Cardiff University and at the Biological Chemistry Department at Rothamsted Research have received an award worth over £1 million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
The BBC Website has highlighted work from the group of Professor Rudolf Allemann in the School of Chemistry. This project, carried out in collaboration with Professor Paul Smith and Dr Rachel Errington, Dr Arwyn Jones and Professor Huw Summers and funded by a £1.4M grant from EPSRC, may one day reveal how cancer cells survive attempts to kill them.
Applications are invited from well-qualified candidates to join a funded* drug discovery project from October 2010.
The School of Chemistry has a number of PhD studentships available from October 2010.
The EPSRC are funding (£140k) a joint project between the Schools of Chemistry and Physics into the development of novel hybrid materials for improved photovoltaic device efficiencies.
Dr. Eric Tippmann is involved in a £1.5M award from EPSRC to develop new physical methods to study stem cell differentiation.
The South West Structural Biology Consortium Meeting 2010 will take place on 22nd and 23rd June 2010 in the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University.
The Cardiff Spring Conference will be held in the School of Chemistry on 5th – 6th May 2010, and will include lectures given by a number of eminent scientists including two Nobel Laureates.
On Wednesday 24th March the School of Chemistry hosted a Salters’ Festival of Chemistry, welcoming sixty Year 7 and 8 pupils from fifteen different schools from Wales and England.
Dr. Jamie Platts has recently been awarded a Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for “Accurate Simulation of Non-Covalent Interactions”, with £43K over two years.
A paper published in the journal Science describes research by Dr. Grazia Bezzu and Prof. Neil McKeown in which beautiful nanoporous crystals are made from iron phthalocyanine, a close relative of the important biologically active unit heme.
Peter Hollamby is the Innovation and Engagement Coordinator in the School of Chemistry. Peter’s duties involve curriculum support for A level chemistry, and developing support mechanisms which aid first year undergraduate students in their transition to university education.
A new £489K project funded by EPSRC will help to uncover the importance of electron spins (paramagnetism) in organometallic redox centres, which are used for oligomerisation catalysis.