Warwick Chemistry is one of the top UK Chemistry Departments and is at the core of the science faculty at Warwick with both our teaching and research spanning all scientific disciplines. We continue to invest heavily in our infrastructure to guarantee and nurture a world-class quality in education and cutting-edge research. Recent investments include new chemical biology and theory and computational research wings, a world-leading magnetic resonance centre, and a new building for Materials and Analytical Science, due to open in 2012. This drive for excellence is increasingly becoming a magnet for the world’s best scientists; we have recently attracted academic staff from Edinburgh, Imperial College London, Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and Boston University in the US.

We currently hold one of the UK Chemistry Departments’ largest EPSRC research grant portfolios, as well as significant funding from other research councils, industry and charities. Our industrial links include Syngenta, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Rhodia, BASF, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Dr Reddys, Wacker Chemie, SABIC, Infineum, Johnson & Johnson, Akzo-Nobel, BP Exploration, Varian, Lubrizol, Warwick Effect Polymers, Rhodia. Lilly, Hypersil, dhg consultancy, Knoll, Aventis, Roche, Akzo Nobel, Johnson Matthey plc, Saint Gobain. Mologic Ltd.

Research interests in the Department cover all areas of contemporary chemistry research, and our staff collaborate in interdisciplinary research with other departments including Physics, Life Sciences and Engineering. We are involved in several projects in the areas of Energy, Materials and Medicine funded under the Birmingham Science City Initiative.

Research Groups

Research in the Chemistry Department is grouped into the following five clusters:

Chemical Biology hhas the guiding view that “chemistry is the language of biology” and has considerable strength in natural products chemistry and biology, mechanistic enzymology, bioinorganic chemistry, membrane proteins and biophysical chemistry.

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Interfaces & Materials Chemistry focuses on the synthesis of macromolecules, colloids, and inorganic solids, their assembly into larger molecular and colloidal mesoand macroscale structures, and their use to design materials with advanced functional properties.

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Analytical Science & Instrumentation is an underpinning discipline, at the nexus between many areas, which leads to collaborations between specialist analytical scientists and colleagues in the bio- or life- sciences, materials or industry. These links with clinicians, pharmaceutical and chemical companies etc. can often result in major leaps in scientific understanding.

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Synthesis & Catalysis covers the breadth of chemical synthesis, including medicinal, organic, organometallic and inorganic, with particular strengths in catalysis and reaction mechanisms.

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Theory & Simulation has activities extending from fundamental studies of atoms and small molecules, using state-of-the-art quantum mechanics, through to large-scale modelling of macroscopic systems; they embrace development of quantum, statisticalmechanical and thermodynamic methods, with applications to the areas of the other four themes.

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Research Degrees

PhD in Chemistry

Duration: Typically 3-4 years in length, depending on the funding scheme

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PhD in Chemistry with Industrial Collaboration

Duration: 4 years

PhD students at Warwick can study in any of the areas of ongoing research in the Department. The PhD with Industrial Collaboration is conducted with an industrial co-funder.

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Taught Master’s Degree

AS:MIT: Analytical Science: Methods and Instrumental Techniques

Duration: 1 year full-time or up to 3 years part-time
Places available: 20

AS:MIT provides a coherent education programme for students of Analytical Science. This central and inherently interdisciplinary science supports research and development in key industries and underpins many aspects of Biological and Clinical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Materials Science and Synthetic Chemistry. The course is delivered by internationally-leading experts from Warwick Science departments and collaborating companies such as Syngenta and AstraZeneca. Students gain hands-on experience in a variety of relevant techniques, enabling graduates to work in any modern laboratory since the skills they acquire are readily transferable between disciplines. A key feature of the course is the opportunity to undertake cutting-edge research with a world-leading group or company.

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“I’m a third year PhD student in the Department of Chemistry. Originally from “Wits” (University of the Witwatersrand) in South Africa, I came to Warwick primarily to work under a particular, well known supervisor, who had funding for interesting and world-class research. I have found the support services at Warwick absolutely indispensable during my time here! The Skills Programme is exceptional: focusing on personal development, equipping graduates with not only the skills for work or academia, but for life. The counselling services, residential life team and chaplaincy are just some of the other support services that have made my time here enjoyable. There is an abundance of sporting and cultural pursuits – not least the renowned Arts Centre which showcases famous British and international shows. My travels will take me to the USA next, to be with the fiancé I met at Warwick, but the lessons I have learned at Warwick will remain with me forever.”

Claire Booyjzsen / PhD Chemistry