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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
Dr Stefan Borsley	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Susannah Bourne-Worster	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Will Brittain	Associate Professor
Dr Patrycja Brook	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Professor Martin Bryce	Professor
Dr David Carty	Associate Professor
Professor Steven Cobb	Professor
Dr Pippa Coffer	Director of Teaching
Professor Sharon Cooper	Professor
Dr Stephen Cox	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Professor Aurora Cruz Cabeza	Professor
Professor Philip Dyer	Professor
Professor John Evans	Professor
Professor Ivana Evans	Professor
Dr Mark Fox	Assistant Professor
Dr Allegra Franchino	Associate Professor
Dr Jemma Gibbard	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Amy Hall	Assistant Professor
Professor Paul Hodgkinson	Professor
Professor David Hodgson	Professor
Dr Andrew Hughes	Associate Professor
Professor Jeremy Hutson	Professor
Dr Karen Johnston	Associate Professor
Professor Ritu Kataky	Professor
Dr Matthew Kitching	Associate Professor
Professor Clare Mahon	Professor
Dr Jennifer Maunder	Lecturer
Dr Litka Milian	Associate Professor
Dr Mark Miller	Associate Professor
Dr Kath Norman	Assistant Professor (Education)
Professor AnnMarie O'Donoghue	Professor
Dr Luke O'Driscoll	Assistant Professor (Education)
Professor Robert Pal	Professor
Dr Lars- Palsson	Associate Professor
Professor Ehmke Pohl	Professor
Professor Jacquie Robson	Professor
Dr John Sanderson	Associate Professor
Dr Thomas Sayer	Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Dr Christian Schnepel	Assistant Professor
Professor Jonathan Steed	Professor
Professor Patrick Steel	Professor
Dr Filip Szczypinski	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Russell Taylor	Associate Professor
Dr Richard Thompson	Associate Professor
Professor David Tozer	Professor
Dr James Walton	Associate Professor
Dr Vanessa Ward	Career Development Fellow
Professor Gareth Williams	Professor
Professor Mark Wilson	Professor
Dr Eckart Wrede	Associate Professor

Visiting and Emeritus Academic Staff

Name	Title
Professor Martin Cann	Visiting Professor
Dr Peter Chivers	Visiting Associate Professor
Michael Crampton	Emeritus Reader
Professor Paul Denny	Professor
Dr Karrera Djoko	Visiting Assistant Professor
Judith Howard	Emeritus Professor
Dr David King	SOFI2 Entrepreneur in Residence and Professor in Practice
Dr Anju Massey-Brooker	Professor in Practice
David Parker	Emeritus Professor
Dr Horst Puschmann	Professor in Practice
Andrew Whiting	Emeritus Professor

Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Stefanie Freitag Pohl	Assistant Professor (Research)
Mohammad Hamidi	Research Assistant
Dr Ruth Le Sueur	Research Fellow
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
Joshua Allchurch	Finance Administrators (Science Finance Hub)
Jane Chilton	Finance Administrators (Science Finance Hub)
Nyla Drisdale-Gordon	Levelling Up Officer
Millie Foster	Finance Administrators (Science Finance Hub)
Rachel Jackson	Finance Coordinator (Science Finance Hub)
Erika Jacques	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Kendra Johnson	Finance Administrators (Science Finance Hub)
Jackie Mckenna	SOFI CDT Manager
Paul Reynolds	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Helene Rusby	Finance Manager (Science Finance Hub)
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
Beth Beck	Health and Safety Technical Manager
Dr Toby Blundell	Senior Manager X-Ray Service
William Carswell	Research Services/Waste Disposal
Dr Aileen Congreve	Senior Research Officer
Ashley Davenport	Technical Officer
Dr Bryan Denton	Supervisor, Electronics Workshop
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
Dr Monik Panchal	Technical Manager for the Durham X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Facility
Dr David Parker	Senior Experimental Officer – Mass Spectrometry Service
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	Senior Manager - Mass Spectrometry Service
Rebecca Sweeney	Assistant Technician
Dr Emily Unsworth	Elemental Analysis

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