
Lecturer in Inorganic/Materials Chemistry at University College Cork
Ireland

Lecturer in Inorganic/Materials Chemistry at University College Cork
Ireland
Current research interests are in organometallic main group, transition and lanthanide metal complexes with (but not exclusively) nitrogen, pnictide, oxygen and chalcogen based ligands and their further use to deposit or grow materials (by MOCVD, ALD or templated processes) from such compounds. Some of our most recent work has shown that we can control the size of, for instance, MnS nanoparticles grown in a very reproducible fashion using a mesoporous substrate.
A noteable recent success has been involvment in the award of a SFI funded (4.2 million euro) Strategic Research Cluster (led by Prof. Martyn Pemble @ the Tyndall) called FORME - Functional Oxide and Related Materials for Electronics.
Inorganic Synthesis, Materials Synthesis, Materials Deposition, MOCVD, MOVPE, Precursor Design, Cheminformatics, Lecturing, Main Group Chrmistry, Lanthanide Chemistry
(Educational Institution; Chemicals industry)
September 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years )
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Chemicals industry)
January 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 6 months)
Postdoc , Chemistry , 1995 — 1996
PhD , Inorganic Chemistry , 1991 — 1994
BSc , Chemistry , 1988 — 1991
1982 — 1988
inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, Information, Science, Chemistry, Drug Discovery, photography, gadgets, music, travelling, rugby, swimming
RSC, ACS, SCI