Department of Chemistry

Teaching: Oxford Chemistry offers world-class teaching, consistently rated among the best in the UK. Students study a four-year course, a unique feature of which is spending their final year working full-time on a project with some of the leading researchers in the UK. The Oxford course has been judged as excellent by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). more...

Research: Oxford is one of the leading chemistry research departments in the world with around 80 academic staff carrying out international-level research, and an annual research income of around £15 million. The latest (2008) Research Assessment Exercise confirmed that Oxford Chemistry has the highest “power rating” (breadth and depth of science) in the UK. The Department is currently engaged in a number of innovative areas of work including chemistry for measurement, drug discovery, energy, catalysis, nanochemistry, synthesis, atmospheric chemistry, synthetic biology and femtochemistry. more...

Facilities: Oxford Chemistry occupies three major laboratory buildings in the University’s science area, including a modern RIBA award-winning £64m dedicated research facility opened in 2004.

Outreach: Engaging schools and the wider community in chemistry and science is an important activity for academic staff and students in the Department. Oxford Chemistry regularly hosts visits and events within the Department and takes part in local and national activities to demonstrate chemistry’s central role in everyday life. more...

Commercialisation: The Department has an unrivalled track record in protecting and commercialising the innovative work of research staff. Over £80 million in cash has been raised for the University as a result of spin out activities from research carried out by Oxford chemists.more...

Chemistry Departments

Her Majesty The Queen opened the new £60 million Chemistry Research Laboratory on the 20th February 2004. This state of the art facility has five floors covering ~17,000 sq.m of laboratory and office space. The £60 million has been raised with grants from the JIF, Wolfson Foundation, EP Abraham Trust, Thomas Swan, the family of Landon T Clay, the Salters Company and a £20 million partnership with IP Group.

Vacancy UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Department of Chemistry
in association with St Hilda’s College
University Lecturership in Organic Chemistry more info

Latest News from the Department of Chemistry

C&EN highlights "Magnetically Probed Protein Interactions"

Chemical and Engineering News features an article on work by Kiminori Maeda and Alex Robinson (from the the Chris Timmel group) published this week in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The paper describes how weak magnetic fields can be used to assess biomolecular dynamics of protein-substrate interactions. more........

Carbohydrate Research feature cover for 2010

Following on from the news that an OBC journal cover image for the Stuart Conway's was selected as the publishers promotion cover for the journal in 2010. Elsevier has selected a cover for a fore-coming issue of Carbohydrate Research to be the feature cover for 2010. The cover illustrates research by the Ben Davis group. Both of these illustrations were designed by Karl Harrison. more........

ChemComm Most Cited Communications 2009

A communication describing a new sodium iron arsenide NaFeAs synthesised by Dr Dinah Parker in the Clarke group has been one of the most highly cited Chemical Communications published in 2009. The compound is one of a series of layered iron compounds which exhibits unconventional superconductivity. The characterisation of NaFeAs was carried out in collaboration with Stephen Blundell's group in Oxford Physics and made use of the neutron and muon instruments at the ISIS facility more........

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