The knowledge, experience and skills of the staff in our school are available to help you solve your problem. Dr Ewen D D CalderChancellor's Fellow (Health and Life)Expertise: Chemical biology; high-throughput screening; peptide chemistry; chemical probe development; biophysics; mRNA display; epitope identification. Professor Colin CampbellPersonal Chair of Medical and Biological SpectroscopyExpertise: Spectroscopy; Raman; SERS; SRS; tissue models; bioanalytical. Professor David ClarkeChair of Mass SpectrometryExpertise: Mass spectrometry; analytical chemistry; protein characterisation; biomolecular analysis. Dr Chris CoxonSenior LecturerExpertise: Medicinal chemistry' drug design; custom peptide synthesis and modification; drug metabolism, metabolite identification and tracking; peptide drug authentication; fluorine chemistry; 19F NMR; drug fragment screening; protein folding, aggregation and interactions. Dr Valentina ErastovaChancellor's FellowExpertise: Computational chemistry; molecular modelling; molecular dynamics; atomistic simulation; high-performance computing (HPC); data-driven modelling; interfacial chemistry; adsorption; porous materials; nanoporous materials; soft matter; formulations; polymeric systems; clay minerals; layered materials; biochar; carbon materials; organic-mineral interactions; confined fluids; pollutant capture; soil-contaminant interactions; hydrocarbon behaviour in shale nanopores; subsurface hydrogen storage; caprock integrity; oxide surfaces; catalyst surfaces; sustainable materials design; environmental remediation; nuclear waste management; open-source scientific software. Dr Amanda JarvisUKRI Future Leaders FellowExpertise: Biocatalysis, Biotechnology, homogenous catalysis, bioinorganic chemistry, protein characterisation - CD, MS, UV-vis, genetic code expansion, non-canonical amino acid synthesis. Dr Emma King-SmithUniversity Research Fellow (Royal Society)Expertise: Organic chemistry; organic synthesis; total synthesis; machine learning; artificial intelligence; chemoinformatics. Professor Ai-Lan LeeChair in Organic ChemistryExpertise: Photocatalysis; light-mediated chemistry; flow chemistry; homogenous catalysis; radical chemistry; sustainable organic synthesis; gold catalysis; palladium catalysis. Professor Julien MichelProfessor of Biomolecular SimulationExpertise: Computer-aided drug design ; medicinal chemistry ; biophysical chemistry ; molecular simulations ; machine learning ; quantum computing. This article was published on Thursday 15 January 2026
