11:30 – 12:00

Dr F. Mark Chadwick:  Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis

12:00 – 13:00 

Main Visiting Speaker:  Professor Dermot O’Hare –  Latest Developments in Layered Hydroxide Chemistry

Biography:

Professor Dermot O’Hare

Dermot O’Hare is a native of Newry, Co Down, he studied chemistry (BA and D.Phil) at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1986 he was awarded a Royal Commission of 1851 Research Fellowship and then following a Dupont Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the USA with Professor J.S. Miller at Central Research & Development, E.I. Dupont in Delaware, he returned to Oxford as a University lecturer and Septcentenary Tutorial Fellow at Balliol College. He is currently SCG Fellow in Chemistry and in October will become the Associate Head for Industry & Innovation.

 He is the founding Director of the Oxford-SCG Centre of Excellence in Chemistry at Oxford University. He has published over 440 scientific papers, co-edited 14 books and is an inventor of over 60 patents. His teaching and research has been recognized by a number awards and prizes including, Royal Society Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship (1996), the 1996 Institüt de France (1996), Exxon European Chemical and Engineering Prize (1997), Royal Society Chemistry Corday Morgan Medal and Prize (1998), and a University of Oxford Teaching Excellence Award (2010), Oxford University Impact Acceleration Award (2015), Royal Society Chemistry Ludwig Mond Prize (2010), and the Royal Society Chemistry Tilden Medal in 2016.

Dr F. Mark Chadwick

Mark Chadwick attained his DPhil in 2013 working with Prof. Dermot O’Hare on Group 4 permethylpentalene complexes. He then worked with Prof. Andrew Weller on synthesising sigma-alkane complexes, before in 2016 moving to the EPFL in Switzerland as an EPFL fellow. There he worked with Prof. Kay Severin on the use of nitrous oxide derivatives in organometallic chemistry. In 2018 he started his independent research at Imperial College London as an Imperial College Research Fellow. His research focuses on using early transition metal catalysts in various physical states for hydrocarbon upgrading.