25 November 2019: Professor Themis Prodromakis (University of South Hampton) Memristive Technologies: from functional oxides to AI on a chip

5 December 2019: Dr Natalia Shustova (University of South Carolina)  Photophysics and Electronic Structure of Metal-Organic Frameworks

23 January 2020: Professor Paul Shearing (UCL) Understanding Batteries from the Atom to the Device

6 February 2020: Professor Marc Koper (Leiden University) Electrochemistry of platinum: new views on an old problem

22 November 2018: Dr. Pieter in 't Veld (BASF) Modelling of Complex Formulations and Polymeric Systems

24 January 2019: Professor Paul Raithby (University of Bath) Molecular Platinum(II) Pincer Complexes for Sensing Volatile Organic Compounds

21 February 2019: Dr. Jacqui Cole (University of Cambridge) Data-driven molecular engineering of functional materials

21 March 2019: Professor Mike Payne (University of Cambridge) From the atom to the material

9 May 2019: Professor Giuseppe Battaglia (UCL) Molecular engineering of precision nanomedicines

 11 June 2019: Professor Clotilde Policar (Ecole Normale Supérieure) A new frontier in inorganic chemistry

12 October 2017: Professor Adah Almutairi (University of California, San Diego) Rare earth metals in medicine

16 November 2017: Professor Clare Grey (University of Cambridge) Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery function

11 January 2018: Professor Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow) Artificial-intelligence-driven synthesis and the digitisation of chemistry

22 February 2018: Professor Jas Pal Badyal (Durham University) Function nanocoatings for technological and societal applications

8 March 2018: Professor Matt Tirrell (Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago) Polyelectrolytes in multivalent ionic media: new physics and new materials

21 May 2018: Professor Frances Arnold (Caltech) Innovation by evolution: bringing new chemistry to life

7 June 2018: Professor Philip Withers (University of Manchester) Completing the picture: correlative multimodal information across length and timescales

21 June 2018: Professor Sophia Haussener (EPFL) Modelling, experimentation and scaling of solar fuel processing devices

20 October 2016: Professor Bill David (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Energy storage and the chemical bond

3 November 2016: Professor Ellis Gartner (Lafarge Central Research) Mineral binders: chemical and physical challenges in cement and concrete science

26 January 2017: Professor Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool) Energy–structure–function maps: designing functional materials 'from scratch'

9 February 2017: Professor Tom McLeish (Durham University) Global low-frequency protein motions in long-range allosteric signalling

23 February 2017: Professor Michael Ward (New York University) Stopping crystal growth in its tracks: pathways to thermapies for pathological crystallisation

23 March 2017: Professor Julian Eastoe (University of Bristol) Surfactants at the design limit

27 April 2017: Professor Paula Hammond (MIT) Nanolayered drug-release systems for regenerative medicine and targeted nanotherapies (This event was kindly sponsored by BASF SE)

Highlight seminars will be held online until further notice

24 September 2020: Professor George Malliaras (University Cambridge) Electronics on the Brain

14 October 2020: Jocelyn Bleriot (Ellen MacArthur Foundation) Circular Economy 

23 February 2021: Professor Koon Gee Neoh (National Univerisity of Singapore) Antimicrobial Surfaces via Molecular Engineering Strategies for Biomedical Applications: Opportunities and Challenges