Susan Perkin
University of Oxford, UK
Susan Perkin is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford. She earned her DPhil in 2006, which was followed by a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford. She then set up a laboratory at UCL (London) before moving to the Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford in 2012. She leads an experimental research group investigating properties of liquids and soft matter in confined geometry. Current interests include electrostatics in concentrated electrolytes and ionic liquids, molecular mechanisms of friction and lubrication, and field effects on confined liquids. She has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council , the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the 新月直播app下载, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize from The Leverhulme Trust.
Susan Weatherby
Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
Susan is the Senior Programme Manager for Conference Development at the 新月直播app下载 (RSC). She commissions, develops and supports the organisation with a range of multi-day conferences including the Faraday Discussions, and through her work as FSCC Secretary has oversight of the Faraday Discussion series.
Susan started her career with us in a publishing role as Assistant Editor for the journals Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Faraday Discussions. Since then, she has changed career within the RSC with roles including journal editorial positions, working with and supporting our specialist subject communities, and oversight of our awards programme and science policy work. Before joining us, Susan completed a BSc in Chemistry and PhD in Materials Chemistry at the University of Nottingham.
George Booth
King’s College London
George Booth is a university reader in theoretical physics at King’s College London. The main focus of his research lies in computational electronic structure theory, with the development of a range of numerical tools to tackle correlated electron problems in both quantum chemistry and condensed matter.
He aims to work at the intersection of traditional chemistry and physics disciplines, with applications ranging from frustrated magnetism to theoretical spectroscopy and quantum computing. His group develop in a number of widely used simulation packages, and is an active member of national computational modelling consortia, including the Thomas Young Center and the Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub.
After completing his a MSci at Nottingham (2006), he studied for a PhD in computational chemistry at Cambridge university, where he developed novel stochastic algorithms for correlated electron problems.
After this, George was awarded a junior research fellowship at Trinity college, Cambridge, where his research branched into electronic problems in condensed matter. This JRF was intermitted for a postdoc at Princeton university in the US, before returning to Cambridge as a lecturer in 2013. On award of a Royal Society university research fellowship, he moved to King’s College London in 2014, and was promoted to the position of reader in 2019.
Rachel Evans
University of Cambridge, UK
Rachel Evans is Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Department of Materials 新月直播app下载, University of Cambridge. She obtained her MChem (2002) and PhD in Physical Chemistry (2007) from Swansea University. She was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Paris-Sud, France and subsequently held an FCT research fellowship between the University of Coimbra and the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
From 2009-2017, she was an Assistant Professor, and then an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Rachel’s research is highly multidisciplinary, involving polymer, colloidal and photochemistry, and the use of advanced scattering and spectroscopic characterization techniques. Current interests include the development of photoactive hybrid materials for luminescent solar devices, indoor photovoltaics, solar-thermal energy storage and nanodelivery.
Rachel has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, the McBain Medal and MacroGroup UK Young Researcher’s Medal from the 新月直播app下载 (RSC)/ Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), and the Dillwyn Medal for STEMM from the Learned Society of Wales. She is a Fellow of both the 新月直播app下载 and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
David Fermin
University of Bristol, UK
David J. Fermin studied Chemistry at the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) and completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Bath. He held a post-doctoral and senior research fellowships at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, before joining the University of Berne as Swiss National 新月直播app下载 Foundation Professor.
He retuned to the UK in 2007, joining the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol where he was promoted to Professor of Electrochemistry in 2013. He has also held visiting academic posts at the Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan (2009), Caltech (2016-2017) and Universidad de Valparaiso (2017, 2020). He is a recipient of the Tajima Prize awarded by the International Society of Electrochemistry and was elected Fellow of the 新月直播app下载 in 2018.
David’s Electrochemistry and Solar Research team explores fundamental aspects on semiconductor electrodes, photoelectrochemistry, photovoltaic solar cells and electrocatalysis. Their research activities bring together rational material design and in-depth analysis of structure-activity relationships incorporating advanced spectroscopy techniques, high resolution microscopy and first principle electronic structure calculations.
Julia Lehman
University of Birmingham
Julia Lehman is an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (2013) before moving to JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder for a postdoctoral fellowship.
In 2017, Julia relocated to the UK and started her independent career as a University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds and then moved to the University of Birmingham (2022). Her research interests include using high resolution infrared frequency comb laser spectroscopy and other laser-based methods to study reaction kinetics and collisional dynamics of small gas phase molecules relevant to planetary atmospheres or the interstellar medium.
David Lennon
University of Glasgow, UK
David Lennon (DL) obtained a B.Sc.(Hons) degree in Chemical 新月直播app下载s (1985) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (1989) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He subsequently took up postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas (Austin) and the University of Western Australia (Perth), before returning to the UK for a further research stint at UEA. That latter period involved, firstly, the application of solid state 新月直播app下载 to investigate adsorption on supported metal catalysts and, secondly, investigations in adsorbate photochemistry.
In 1996 DL moved to the University of Glasgow to take up an ICI Lectureship in Heterogeneous Catalysis. Remaining at Glasgow, DL is presently a Professor of Physical Chemistry and heads the School of Chemistry’s Heterogeneous Catalysis Section.
DL’s main interests are in surface chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis, with the majority of his work undertaken in collaboration with industrial partners. DL is a strong supporter of the Faraday Discussions meetings; his first meeting being in Reading in 1996 (105: “Catalysis and Surface 新月直播app下载 at High Resolution”); he still has the conference bag to prove it!
Andy Mount
University of Edinburgh
Andy Mount is Professor of Physical Electrochemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Andy graduated and gained his PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College. He had a spell of postdoctoral research at Oxford University, where he was a Research Scholar at University College, a College Lecturer at Keble College and a Junior Research Fellow at Green College.He was appointed to a Lectureship in Chemistry at Edinburgh in 1992.
In 2005 Andy was promoted to Reader, and in 2012 was promoted to Professor. He is also Dean of Research & Strategic Partnerships in the College of 新月直播app下载 & Engineering (CSE) at Edinburgh University.
With around 130 journal publications and 11 patents, Andy’s research interests include fundamental and applied electrochemistry, sensing and analysis, development and application of healthcare technologies, and low-carbon, clean nuclear energy.
Andy is a founder and Director of the open access Pyrochemical Research Laboratory, has provided policy advice to UK and Scottish governments (e.g., through the Scottish 新月直播app下载 Advisory Council), and led UK RAE/REF submissions for Chemistry at Edinburgh (as Chemistry Dean of Research) and for the College of 新月直播app下载 & Engineering (as Dean of REF). He is currently President of the RSC’s Faraday Community for Physical Chemistry.
Julia Weinstein
University of Sheffield, UK
Julia Weinstein is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, the University of Sheffield. Julia obtained her Diploma in Chemistry (with honours) from Moscow Lomonosov State University in 1990, followed by a PhD from the same institution in 1994, under supervision of Professor M Kuzmin and Professor N Sadovskii, on "The role of exciplexes in the mechanism of electron transfer in Marcus's kinetic region". She has been a member of the academic staff at the MSU since 1994.
In 2000, she became a Royal Society/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nottingham, which was followed by a temporary lectureship at the same institution. She was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in 2004 on "Light-Switchable Molecular Devices". She joined the Department in Sheffield in 2005.
Julia's interests are in light-induced reactions, from fundamental ultrafast processes to applications of photoactive molecules in photocatalysis, photodynamic therapies, and antibacterial treatments. Her group applies diverse ultrafast laser spectroscopy methods electronic (absorption, emission, fluorescence upconversion) and vibrational spectroscopy (time-resolved infrared, TRIR, and Raman) to understanding ultrafast charge, spin, and structural dynamics in the condensed phase, with particular focus on the role of vibronic coupling and optical control of charge transfer.
More recent interests include time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy and XFEL. She is currently a member of the science team for the UK XFEL project. Julia has a long-standing collaboration with the Central Laser Facility of the STFC.
She has the Lomonosov Award in 新月直播app下载 (2003), John Van Geuns Lecture (2004), and the RSC Chemical Dynamics Award (2017).