WestCHEM
WestCHEM, the joint Research School of Chemistry for the West of Scotland, was founded in 2005 as an internationally leading Research School in Chemical Sciences, delivering forefront chemistry research in state-of-the-art laboratories, and educating tomorrow’s leaders through chemistry.
WestCHEM Research Themes
WestCHEM research cuts across the full range of topics in modern chemistry, and is grouped in four general themes:
- Synthetic and Biological Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Theory, Structure and Spectroscopy
- Analytical Chemistry
WestCHEM Chairs
The six Chair appontments made under the WestCHEM arrangements are all in place:
- Inorganic Materials (Professor D H Gregory)
- Organic Materials Synthesis (Professor P Skabara)
- Organic Synthesis and Chemical Proteomics (Professor J S Clark)
- Synthetic Chemistry (Professor J M Percy)
- Theoretical Chemistry and Modelling (Professor J E McGrady)
- Functional Biomaterials (Professor R V Ulijn)
WestCHEM organisation
Directorate
Professor Duncan Graham (Director); Professor Lee Cronin (Deputy Director)
Management Board
Professor Chick Wilson, Professor Duncan Graham, Professor David Jackson, Professor David Littlejohn, Professor Stephen Clark, Professor Pete Skabara
External Assessors
Professor W J Feast (Durham), Professor G Hancock (Oxford), Professor T J Simpson (Bristol)
