CHEMISTRY - Key Persons

Professor David Collison has been the co-Director of the EPSRC Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy National Research Facility (NRF) since its inception in 1995. He is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Manchester, and is expert in EPR spectroscopies and their applications into the molecular and electronic structure of d- and f-block metal ions in and their influence on the reactivity and microscopic properties of metals in problems ranging from metalloenzymes to corrosion inhibition. He is co-author of the authoritative textbook EPR of d-transition Metal Compounds, and in 2020 was the recipient of the highly prestigious Bruker Prize for EPR Spectroscopy, for "experimental and theoretical fundamentals of transition metal EPR, from bioinorganic chemistry to molecular materials". He has previously Chaired the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) EPR Group.

David Leigh

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Academic Staff Member
Royal Society Research Professor and Sir Samuel Hall Professor

David Leys

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Professor of Structural Biology

David Mills

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Professor

David Procter

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Head of Department and Professor of Organic

Delroy Flemmings

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Teaching Laboratory Technician

Douglas Kell

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Honorary Professor

Dr Alice Bowen

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Fellow
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow

Alice Bowen holds a Royal Society and EPSRC funded Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship and was recently awarded a CAMS Analytical Trust Fund fellowship from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Alice joined The University of Manchester in 2019 through the award of a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship. Alice's research interests lie in the field of pulsed, dipolar and optical pump-probe EPR methods and method development for applications to chemical and biochemical systems. Prior to joining the NRF team in Manchester, she was awarded the Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at Oxford University, where she also completed her DPhil, and she undertook a post-doctoral spell, supported by a Marie Curie GO-IN fellowship, with Prof Prisner at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Dr Enzo Olivieri

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Lecturer in Organic

Dr Floriana Tuna

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Facility Manager
Reader in Inorganic
Senior Research Fellow at Manchester

Floriana Tuna is a Senior Research Fellow at Manchester, and Manager of the EPSRC National EPR Facility. She is expert in applications of cw and pulsed EPR, and her expertise is sought widely by international collaborators, e.g. with active funded collaborations with colleagues in Russia (Moscow, Novosibirsk) and Brazil (São Paulo). She has made major contributions in applications of pulsed EPR in, e.g., porous materials, supramolecular chemistry and f-elements. She was awarded the Romanian Academy ‘Ilie Murgulescu' Prize in 2005, a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2001, and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2018.

Dr Meagan Oakley

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Academic Staff Member
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow

Dr Muralidharan Shanmugam

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Senior Experimental Officer

Muralidharan Shanmugam is a Senior Experimental Officer at The University of Manchester. He has extensive expertise in EPR spectroscopy of biological and biochemical systems and until 2020 was based in the Manchester Institute for Biotechnology (MIB), being appointed to support the research activities (e.g. MAGnetic Innovation in Catalysis - MAGIC) associated with molecules with unpaired electrons (i.e. radicals and open-shell metal ions). He is also an expert in advanced pulsed, dipolar (PELDOR/RIDME), and hyperfine (HYSCORE, Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance) methods as applied to the metalloproteins and biomimetic models. Prior to this, he worked at Northwestern University (USA) with Professor Hoffman and Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (Germany) with Professor Wolfgang Lubitz using advanced pulsed EPR techniques for structural determination of Fe, Mn, Mo and Cu containing metalloproteins. From 2020, he is based in the EPR NRF in the PSI, as part of the consolidation of the EPR activities in Manchester.

Drupad Trivedi

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Lecturer in Analytical and Measurement Sciences

Ellie Payne

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Laboratory Technician

Emma Enston

em..@manchester.ac.uk

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Analytical Technician
Senior Technician, MS / Separations (

Eric Mcinnes

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Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Manchester

Eric McInnes is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Manchester, and co-Director of the EPSRC EPR National Facility in the Photon Science Institute (PSI). He is expert in the electronic structure of paramagnetic materials, by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, magnetometry and related methods. In 2015 he was awarded the International EPR Society Medal for Chemistry, and in 2005 their Young Investigator Award (only the second time either has been awarded to a British scientist). In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and also awarded the RSC Tilden Prize. He was Chair of the RSC EPR Group from 2016-19, has served on the RSC Faraday Council, is Advisor on Inorganic Chemistry to the Carnegie Trust (Scotland), and is on advisory committees to the Centre for Advanced ESR (Oxford), the HiPER2 project (St Andrews), and the new EPR Facility at Imperial College London.

Eriko Takano

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Professor of Synthetic Biology

Francis Livens

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Interim Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute

Francis Mair

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Senior Lecturer

Frederick Currell

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Professor and Director of the Dalton Cumbrian Facility

Gareth Morris

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Professor of Physical

Gareth Smith

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Technician
Senior Technician, Mass Spectrometry (

Garry Procter

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Emeritus Professor

George Whitehead

ge..@manchester.ac.uk

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Experimental Officer

Giacomo Crisenza

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Lecturer in Organic

Guillaume De Bo

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Professor

Guo-Quiang Chen

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Chairman in Synthetic Biology

Hannah Stern

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Royal Society Research Fellow

Ian Goodbody

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Technician Measurements Teaching Laboratory

Ian Hillier

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Emeritus Professor

Ian Rowles

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Project Manager

Ian Watt

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Honorary Staff Member
Honorary Senior Lecturer

Igor Larrosa

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Chairman in Organic

Imogen Riddell

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Royal Society Research Fellow and Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow

Imogen Smith

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Assistant
Operations Executive

Jack Rowbotham

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BBSRC Discovery Fellow

Jade Kelly

ja..@manchester.ac.uk

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Operations Administrative Assistant

Jagathisan Moodley

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Deputy Health and Safety Advisor

Jane Gilsenan

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Project Manager

Jason Micklefield

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Professor of Chemical Biology

Jim Thomas

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Emeritus Professor

John Gardiner

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Senior Lecturer

John Helliwell

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Emeritus Professor

John Joule

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Emeritus Professor

John Whittall

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Research Exploration Manager

Jonathan Agger

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Teaching Fellow

Jonathan Connor

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Professor Emeritus of Theoretical

Jonathan Skelton

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Presidential Fellow

Jonathan Waltho

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Professor of Biophysics

Jordi Bures Amat

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Reader in Organic

Kamila Schmidt

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Research Technician

Katherine Hollywood

ka..@manchester.ac.uk

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Senior Technical Specialist

Klaus Muller-Dethlefs

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Emeritus Professor

Kristy Turner

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Lecturer

Laurena Rika

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Operations Administrator

Louise Natrajan

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Reader

Louise Wood-Sanna

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Deputy School Operations Manager

Lu Shin Wong

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Senior Lecturer

Ludmila Timco

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Technician

Martin Attfield

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Senior Lecturer

Martin Jennings

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Microanalysis Laboratory Manager

Martin Schröder

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Professor

Mathias Nilsson

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Professor of Physical

Matthew Gibson

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Professor in Sustainable Materials

Michael Anderson

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Professor of Materials

Michael Baker

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Diamond Manchester Research Fellow

Michael Greaney

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Professor of Organic

Michael Hughes

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Technician

Michael James

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Lecturer in Synthetic Organic

Michael Turner

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Professor of Materials

Mohammed Maqsood

mo..@manchester.ac.uk

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Analytical Technician
Technician, OMIC / Analytical Chemistry (

Mr Adam Brookfield

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Research Technician
EPR Technician

Adam Brookfield is a Research Technician associated full-time with the EPR NRF in the Photon Science Institute at Manchester, being appointed there in 2015 after graduating with a degree in Physics. He oversees all technical aspects of the Facility, is expert in the operation of all the equipment, and is also instrumental in the development of new techniques. He also takes a key role in the training and wider outreach of the technique such as producing documentation and supervising summer research placements.

Nathan Owston

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Senior Lecturer in

Neil Burton

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Reader

Neil Dixon

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Senior Lecturer

Nicholas Cheung

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Teaching Laboratory Technician

Nicholas Chilton

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Professor of Computational

Nicholas Lockyer

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Reader

Nicholas Turner

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Professor of Chemical Biology

Nicholas Weise

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Senior Lecturer

Nigel Scrutton

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Professor

Nikolas Kaltsoyannis

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Professor of Computational Chemistry and Co - Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research

Paola Carbone

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Professor in Physical

Patrick Cai

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Chairman in Systems Genomics

Paul Nicholson

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Technician

Paul Popelier

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Professor of Chemical Theory and Computation

Penny Bartlett-O'Boyle

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Operations Project Officer

Perdita Barran

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Professor of Mass Spectrometry and Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry

Peter Budd

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Professor

Philip Hodge

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Emeritus Professor

Rachel Heath

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Senior Experimental Officer

Rainer Breitling

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Professor of Systems Biology

Ralph Adams

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Senior Lecturer
Head of NMR

Ralph Adams (Head of NMR in the Department of Chemistry and should be contacted for advice on more complex and extended projects, and more general NMR facility queries).