Neil Champness
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Neil Champness | |
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| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Birmingham University of Nottingham |
| Thesis | Studies in ruthenium and osmium coordination chemistry (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bill Levason |
| Doctoral students | Anna Slater Andrei Khlobystov |
| Website | neilchampnessgroup |
Neil Champness is a British chemist currently serving as head of the School of Chemistry and Norman Haworth Professor of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham.[1] His research focuses on supramolecular assembly and metal-organic frameworks.[2][3]
Academic career
Following his PhD, Champness remained at Southampton to continue postdoctoral studies with Gill Reid.[4] In 1995, Champness became a teaching fellow in inorganic chemistry at the University of Nottingham, becoming a reader in 2003 and gaining the Chair of Chemical Nanoscience in 2004.[1] Champness moved to the University of Birmingham in 2021.[5]
In 2019, Champness was appointed to the advisory board of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.[6] Champness served as the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm from 2007-2010, having previously served as a member of the journals Editorial Board from 2003-2006.[7] In 2020, Champness was appointed editor-in-chief of the organic crystalline materials section of Crystals, a journal of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.[2]
Throughout his career Champness has given many public lectures including a Friday Discourse[8] at the Royal Institution in 2015.[9]
