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Academic Staff

Name	Title
Professor Chris Greenwell	Head of Department
Professor Jas Pal S. Badyal FRS	Professor
Prof. Colin D. Bain	Professor
Prof. Ian R. Baxendale	Director of Education
Dr Simon Beaumont	Associate Professor
Prof. Andrew Beeby	Professor
Professor Tim R Blower	Visiting Associate Professor
Dr William Brittain	Assistant Professor
Dr Patrycja Brook	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Prof. Martin R. Bryce	Professor
Professor Martin Cann	Visiting Professor
Dr David Carty	Associate Professor
Dr Peter Chivers	Visiting Associate Professor
Prof. Steven Cobb	Professor
Dr Philippa Coffer	Director of Teaching
Dr Sharon J. Cooper	Associate Professor
Dr Michael Crampton	Emeritus Reader
Prof. Aurora Cruz-Cabeza	Professor
Professor Paul Denny	Professor
Dr Karrera Djoko	Visiting Assistant Professor
Prof. Philip W. Dyer	Professor
Prof. John S.O. Evans	Professor
Prof. Ivana Evans	Professor
Prof. W. James Feast	Emeritus Professor
Dr Mark A. Fox	Assistant Professor
Dr Allegra Franchino	Assistant Professor
Dr Jemma Gibbard	Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Amy Hall	Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Prof. Paul Hodgkinson	Professor
Prof. David R.W. Hodgson	Professor
Prof. Judith A. K. Howard	Professor Emeritus
Dr Andrew Hughes	Associate Professor
Prof. Jeremy M. Hutson	Professor
Dr Karen E. Johnston	Associate Professor
Prof. Ritu Kataky	Professor
Dr Matthew O. Kitching	Assistant Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dr Clare Mahon	Assistant Professor
Miss Jennifer Maunder	Teaching Fellow
Dr Julieta Litka Milian	Assistant Professor
Dr Mark Miller	Associate Professor
Dr John G. M. Mina	Visiting Research Associate
Dr Katherine Norman	Teaching Fellow in Chemistry
Prof. AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue	Professor
Dr Luke O'Driscoll	Teaching Fellow
Dr Lars-Olof Pålsson	Associate Professor
Prof. Robert Pal	Professor
Prof. David Parker	Professor
Professor Ehmke Pohl	Director of Impact
Professor Nigel Robinson	Professor (Visiting)
Prof. Jacquie Robson	Professor
Dr Petja Rosenqvist	Royal Society Newton International Fellow
Dr John M. Sanderson	Associate Professor
Dr Namrah Shahid	Teaching Fellow in Chemistry
Prof. Jonathan W. Steed	Professor
Prof. Patrick G. Steel	Professor
Dr Russell Taylor	Assistant Professor
Dr Richard Thompson	Associate Professor
Prof. David J. Tozer	Professor
Prof. Jan R.R. Verlet	Director of Research
Dr James W. Walton	Associate Professor
Prof. Andy Whiting	Professor
Prof. J.A. Gareth Williams	Professor
Prof. Mark Richard Wilson	Professor
Dr Eckart Wrede	Associate Professor

Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Sophie Clough	Research Associate
Mr Davide De-rosa	Early Stage Researcher (Marie Curie)
Dr Genevieve Duche	Research Associate
Dr Stefanie Freitag-Pohl	Research Associate
Dr Matthew Frye	Research Associate
Dr Savannah Gibson	Research Associate
Dr Niloofar Haghighian	Research Associate
Mr Mohammad Daud Hamidi	Research Assistant
Miss Rachel Hendrikse	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Daniel Hollas	Research Associate
Dr Benjamin Huddart	Research Associate
Dr Oto-obong Inyang	Research Associate
Mr Jaime Isern	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr David King	Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence
Dr Suman Kuila	Research Associate
Dr Catherine Le-sueur	Research Fellow
Professor Anju Massey-brooker	Professor in Practice
Mr Bijit Mukherjee	Research Associate
Miss Waduwarage Perera	Research Assistant
Dr David Picton	Research Associate
Dr Exequiel Porta	COFUND Fellow
Dr Thomas Potter	Research Associate
Dr Antonio Prlj	Research Associate
Horst Puschmann	Professor in Practice
Dr Parth Raval	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Catriona Sellick	Research Associate
Mr Lloyd Shaw	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Yiping Shi	Research Associate
Dr Matthieu Starck	KTP Associate
Dr Emma Tarrant	Research Associate
Dr Lisong Yang	Research Associate
Dr Andrea Zachariou	Research Associate
Dr Jiayun Zhu	Research Associate

Business Process and People Services

Name	Title
Jim Fraser	Departmental Manager
Mrs Nicola Bramfitt	Learning and Teaching Manager
Miss Emily Chester	Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Miss Nyla Drisdale-gordon	Levelling Up Officer
Miss Rachel Jackson	Finance Coordinator
Mr David James	Finance Officer
Mrs Gillian Longthorne	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Mrs Jackie Mckenna	CDT Manager
Mr Paul Reynolds	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Miss Helene Rusby	Finance Manager
Miss Megan Smith	Operations Administrator
Mr Andy Walker	Senior Research Administrator
Mrs Emma Worden	MoSMed CDT Manager
Mrs Lynn Young	Learning and Teaching Administrator

Technical Teaching Research Services

Name	Title
Dr Juan A Aguilar Malavia	Head of Solution State NMR Service
Mr K Appleby	Electronics Workshop
Miss Bethany Beck	Health and Safety Technical Manager
Dr Toby Blundell	Senior Experimental Officer
Mr Aaron Brown	Glassblowing
Mr WD Carswell	Research Services/Waste Disposal
Dr Aileen Congreve	Senior Research Officer
Ms Ashley Davenport	Technical Officer
Dr Bryan Denton	Supervisor, Electronics Workshop
Mr I Edwards	Biochemistry
Miss Claire Fairish	Laboratory Attendant
Mrs CF Heffernan	NMR liquid-state
Mr PA Hofmann	Undergraduate teaching & Facilities Manager
Mr RN Holmes	Supervisor, Mechanical Workshop
Dr Eric Hughes	Experimental Officer
Mr Anthony Humphries	Intermediate Technician
Ms Danielle Irwin	Advanced Technician
Mrs E Knighton	Supervisor, Undergrad. lab.
Mr LW Lauchlan	Chromatography
Mr Antony Newman	Senior Technician
Mr G 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 D Parker	Mass Spec
Mrs Alison Reid	Laboratory Attendant
Mr M Richardson	Supervisor, Glassblowing Workshop
Dr Connor Sibbald	Senior Technical Manager
Mr George Sleight	Teaching Assistant
Ms AL Smith	Laboratory Attendant
Mr Ivan Smith	Laboratory Attendant
Mr G Southern	Stores maintenance
Mr Peter Stokes	Experimental Officer, Mass Spec
Miss Rebecca Sweeney	Assistant Technician
Mr Oliver Thomas	Teaching Assistant
Dr Emily Unsworth	Elemental Analysis
Mr Paul White	Mechanical Workshop Technician
Dr DS Yufit	Senior Experimental Officer

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