Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge


The Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge is the chemistry department of the University of Cambridge. It was formed from a merger in the early 1980s of two separate departments that had moved into the Lensfield Road building decades earlier: the Department of Physical Chemistry and the Department of Chemistry respectively. Research interests in the department cover a broad of chemistry ranging from molecular biology to geophysics. The department is located on the Lensfield Road, next to the Panton Arms on the South side of Cambridge. the department is home to around 200 postdoctoral research staff, over 250 postgraduate students, around sixty academic staff.

Research

The Department’s research is organised around five Research Interest Groups :

Senior Staff: Professors

the department employs 28 Professors including several Fellows of the Royal Society, Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry shown below:
FMedSci FRS is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
FRS FMedSci is John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology
FRS at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology is Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
, a teaching fellow in the department, delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2012.
  1. Professor Chris Abell FRS FMedSci
  2. Professor Ali Alavi FRS
  3. Professor Stuart Althorpe
  4. Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS
  5. Professor Jason Chin
  6. Professor Jane Clarke FRS FMedSci
  7. Professor Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci
  8. Professor Stephen Elliott
  9. Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS
  10. Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS
  11. Professor Matthew Gaunt
  12. Professor Robert Glen
  13. Professor Jonathan M. Goodman
  14. Professor Clare Grey FRS
  15. Professor Chris Hunter FRS
  16. Professor Bill Jones
  17. Professor Rod Jones
  18. Professor David Klenerman FRS FMedSci
  19. Professor Steven V. Ley FRS
  20. Professor Jonathan Nitschke
  21. Professor Ian Paterson FRS
  22. Professor John A. Pyle FRS
  23. Professor Jeremy Sanders FRS
  24. Professor Michiel Sprik
  25. Professor David Spring
  26. Professor Michele Vendruscolo
  27. Professor David J. Wales FRS FRSC
  28. Professor Dominic Wright

    Emeritus Professors

The department is also home to fifteen emeritus professors, pursuing their research interests after their formal retirement including:
and Gordon Brown from 2000 to 2007.
speaking at Wikimania 2014.
  1. Professor Alan R. Battersby
  2. Professor A. David Buckingham FRS
  3. Professor Paul Davies
  4. Professor Ian Fleming FRS
  5. Professor Ray Freeman FRS
  6. Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS
  7. Professor Brian F. G. Johnson FRS
  8. Professor David King FRS
  9. Professor Tony Kirby FRS
  10. Professor Jacek Klinowski
  11. Professor Richard Lambert
  12. Professor Ian Smith FRS
  13. Professor Jim Staunton FRS
  14. Professor Anthony Stone
  15. Professor Brian Thrush FRS