Equality, Diversity and Inclusion


2010-05-11 16:15: Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells (Professor Clare Grey, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry)

2010-11-02 15:30: Supramolecular Approaches to Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Sea Cucumbers to Self-Healing Films (Professor Stuart Rowan, Kent Hale Smith Professor, Case Western University)

2010-11-09 14:30: Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions (BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)

2010-11-10 14:30: Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings (BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)

2010-11-11 11:30: Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences (BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)

2010-11-12 14:15: Multicomponent Block Polymers for Templating and Separations (Professor Marc Hillmyer Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota)

2010-11-25 16:00: Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Emerging Optoelectronic Devices and Bioelectronic Applications (Professor Gui Bazan, Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara)

2010-12-09 19:00: Cognac and Armagnac - a scientific brandy tasting (Bruce Perry (Eaux de Vie Ltd, London))

2011-02-15 15:30: Probing nanostructures and optoelectronic properties of plastic solar cells by scanning probe microscopy (Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA)

2011-04-11 17:00: “Physical chemistry and searching for a cure for sickle cell disease” (Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator  Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda)

2011-04-14 14:00: "Ultrafast Protein Folding" (Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator  Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda)

2011-05-03 16:00: Primo Levi’s Lesson: a Bridge between Chemistry and Literature (Professor Luigi Dei  Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” University of  Florence via della Lastruccia, 3  50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze) - Italy)

2011-05-12 16:00: Band Gap Control in Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers via Lewis Acids (Dr Greg Welch, University of California at Santa Barbara)

2011-11-03 15:30: Linnett Lecture: "Landscapes of Matter, Energy and Life" (Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University)

2011-12-09 14:00: Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages (Professor Paul Lusby, University of Edinburgh)

2012-02-21 15:45: "Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid  materials" (Dr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2012-02-21 16:45: "Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis" (Prof. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen)

2012-03-12 17:00: 'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals' (Prof. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2012-05-29 16:00: TBC (Professor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-25 13:00: Dynamol Symposium (Jeremy Sanders, Fraser Stoddart, Christoph Schalley and Rafal Klajn)

2012-11-26 16:00: "Formation of C-C Bonds via Catalytic Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation" (Professor Mike Krisches - University of Texas at Austin)

2013-03-07 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania )

2014-03-18 16:00: The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target (Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry Stellenbosch University South Africa)

2014-03-18 16:00: The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target (Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

2014-05-19 16:00: “Development of new antibiotics by targeting essential enzymes in bacteria: structure-based design and simulation studies” (Dr Concepción González-Bello , Associate Professor, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

2014-06-06 11:00: RSC Easterfield Award Winner Lecture (Dr Bridget Stocker - RSC Easterfield Award Winner)

2015-05-14 14:30: Luminescent materials by controlling and managing self-assembly (Professor Luisa De Cola - University of Strasbourg, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS))

2015-05-15 16:00: Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems (Professor Robert Bergman)

2015-05-29 14:00: Natural and not so natural Products: From Bed Bug Communication to New Strategies for Drug Synthesis (Professor Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University, Canada)

2015-06-11 14:30: Self-assembled functional materials. Adsorption processes in metal-organic frameworks (Dr David Fairen-Jimenez (University of Cambridge))

2015-09-04 10:00: "Investigating Interactions" - Symposium celebrating the research career of Professor Jeremy Sanders (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-13 15:00: BP Keynote Lecture: "Multiscale-Multimodal Imaging: Shining a light on materials behaviour” (Prof. Phil J. Withers, International Centre for Advanced Materials   )

2015-10-15 16:00: “The Molecular Recognition Toolbox” (Professor Chris Hunter)

2015-11-05 14:30: "Studies at the abiotic-biotic interface" (Prof. Carole Perry, Nottingham Trent University)

2015-11-10 15:00: Improving pharmaceutical manufacturability through crystal engineering (Professor Calvin Sun, University of Minnesota)

2015-11-11 15:30: "Solar Powered CO2-to-Fuel” (Professor Geoffrey Ozin, University of Toronto)

2016-01-14 14:30: Catalysts for CO2 reduction: from molecules to solids (Prof. Marc Fontecave, College de France)

2016-01-14 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley)

2016-02-16 16:00: The Linnett Lecture - Life at the Single Molecule Level: Single Cell Genomics (Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University)

2016-02-18 14:30: Intensified-Process Integration at All Scales  – flow reactor networks and end-to-end intensified chemical plants (Prof. Volker Hessel, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2016-02-18 16:00: Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling (Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University)

2016-02-19 16:00: Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine (Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University)

2016-03-17 15:00: Alumni Medal Ceremony and Talk (Dr Yusuf K Hamied)

2016-04-07 15:30: Functional materials using metathesis initiators (Professor Robert Grubbs, Caltech)

2016-04-08 09:00: Professor Steven Ley's 70th Birthday Symposium (Professor D. Enders, Professor M. Gaunt, Professor D. MacMillan, Professor R. Grubbs)

2016-05-05 14:00: NEW ADVANCES IN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY: GOING FAR BEYOND TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS WITH AFFINIMETER (ITC Analysis company: AFFINImeter)

2016-05-12 16:00: A New Approach to Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis (Prof. Dr. Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institute, Mülheim)

2016-05-16 14:00: NEW ADVANCES IN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY: GOING FAR BEYOND TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS WITH AFFINIMETER (AFFINImeter)

2016-05-16 16:00: Synthetic, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry in the Smith Group at the University of Pennsylvania (Professor Amos B. Smith, III, University of Pennsylvania)

2016-07-01 15:00: Artificial photosynthesis—From catalysts to devices for water splitting (Professor Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

2016-07-01 15:00: Studying Interfacial Processes During Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction (Dr Alexander Cowan, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool)

2016-07-07 14:00: CO2 + H2O + Sunlight → Chemical Fuels + O2 (Prof. Peidong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA)

2016-07-11 14:00: Decorating the room at the bottom – designer nanomaterials for catalytic renewables conversions (Prof. Anthony Masters, The School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia)

2016-11-16 14:30: Artificial photosynthesis: From bio-inspired H2-evolving catalysts to photoelectrode materials (Dr. Vincent Artero, SolHyCat, Université Grenoble Alpes)

2016-11-16 14:30: Molecular catalysis for the reduction of CO2 with Fe complexes (Prof. Marc Robert, 	 Université Paris)

2017-01-13 14:00: New Directions in Ni-catalyzed Cross Coupling (Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University)

2017-02-02 16:00: Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Biomimetic Approaches (Professor Andrew Wilson, University of Leeds)

2017-03-08 11:00: Understanding SAR of the apelins and how it impacts patho-physiology (Dr Eric Marsault, Univerisity of Sherbrooke)

2017-05-08 14:30: Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture (Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck)

2017-05-11 16:00: Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis (Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles)

2017-05-23 15:00: Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons (Prof. Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

2017-05-31 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Joost Reek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2017-06-22 11:00: Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry (Professor Jean-Marie Lehn)

2017-09-06 14:00: Manufacturing of designed nanomaterials (Dr. Laura Torrente Murciano, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2017-09-13 13:00: Photosynthetic water oxidation - the substrates view (Prof. Johannes Messinger, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden)

2017-10-16 16:00: Shedding some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe: Ribozymes, Telomerase and Regulating Epigenetics (Professor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder)

2017-11-08 16:00: Bonfires with a bang (Dr Andy Szydio)

2017-11-30 16:00: New Frontiers in Biocatalytic C-H Functionalization (Professor Greg Challis, University of Warwick)

2017-12-07 16:00: Stereodivergent Catalysis, Strategies and Tactics Towards Secondary Metabolites as enabling tools for the Study of Natural Products Biology (Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich)

2017-12-15 16:00: What inspires us to learn? (Fun Man Fung, National University of Singapore)

2018-04-03 11:00: INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS  (Prof. Abraham Katzir, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University)

2018-04-13 11:00: David Chandler Linnett Memorial Symposium (Dr Céline Merlet, Prof. Christoph Dellago, Prof. Iris Antes, Prof. Juan P. Garrahan, Dr Lester Hedges, Prof. Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Prof. Berend Smit, Dr Benjamin Rotenberg, Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Dr Ulf Pedersen)

2018-04-16 16:00: "Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities" (Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel)

2018-04-27 14:00: Polyaromatic Nanocapsules: from Strategic Synthesis to Host Functions (Professor Michito Yoshizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

2018-05-31 16:00: Molecular Imaging of Disease (Bruno Oliveira, Chemistry Dept, Cambridge)

2018-06-11 10:00: Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages (Prof. Dr. Guido Clever (Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund))

2018-07-19 14:00: From new dynamically self-assembling materials to chemical reactivities in confined environments  (Professor Rafal Klajn (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) )

2018-07-24 11:00: Nanostructures Prepared from Self-Assembly of Pillararene-Based Macrocyclic Amphiphiles and Supramolecular Amphiphiles (Professor Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University)

2018-09-28 10:00: Polymer/clay nanocomposites: The catalytic effect of clay (Prof Miroslav Huskić (National Institute of Chemistry))

2018-10-02 10:00: Development of New Chirality-switchable Functional Materials Based on the Solvent-dependent Helix Inversion of Poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s (Prof. Yuuya Nagata (Kyoto University, Japan))

2018-10-02 10:30: Pillar-Shaped Macrocyclic Compounds "Pillar[n]arenes": from Simple Molecular Receptors to Bulk Supramolecular Assemblies (Prof. Tomoki Ogoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan))

2018-10-02 11:00: Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Materials Formed from Host and Guest Polymers (Prof. Yoshinori Takashima (Osaka University, Japan))

2018-10-02 11:30: The role of chirality on the assembly of short peptides into supramolecular hydrogels (Prof. Silvia Marchesan, University of Trieste)

2018-10-23 14:30: Functional Nanoparticles:  A Pathway to Low Viscosity Nanofluids, High Graft Density Polymers and Other Fun Things (Prof. David Andrew Lewis, PhD, FRACI (Flinders centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, Flinders University) )

2018-11-12 16:00: Using Microwell Array Technology to Probe Chemistry and Biology at Their Fundamental Limits (Professor David R Walt, Harvard Medical School)

2018-11-13 15:00: 2018 Merck Lectureship (Professor Sarah Reisman- Caltech)

2018-11-21 14:00: Metal-containing organic cages and macrocycles  with open/close feature (Prof Shigehisa Akine (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University))

2018-12-19 14:00: Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light (Professor Kirsten Zeitler, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universitat Leipzig.)

2019-01-23 14:00: Athena SWAN Presentation (Professor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman)

2019-01-23 15:45: Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis (Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences))

2019-01-24 11:30: Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On (Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences))

2019-01-24 15:00: SUPERCHIRALITY AND BLOCH SURFACE WAVES (Prof. Paolo Biagioni, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (IT))

2019-02-07 14:00: Melville Lectures 2019 "Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus" (Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg)

2019-02-11 14:30: Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications" (Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg)

2019-03-14 14:00: Catalytic Activation of Renewable Resources to make Polymers and Fuels (Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford))

2019-03-15 12:00: Switchable Polymerization Catalysis: Ordered Block Polymers from Monomer Mixtures (Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford))

2019-03-22 17:00: Alex Hopkins Lecture - ‘Is the Milky Way Special?’ Professor Chris Lintott (Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford)

2019-04-03 16:00: PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality (Professor Craig Crews, Yale University.)

2019-04-09 13:00: Melville Mini-symposium: Wood Hemicelluloses: Molecular Structure and Interactions in Woody Tissues (Prof. Francisco Javier Vilaplana Domingo, UNIVERSITETSLEKTOR)

2019-04-09 14:00: Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces (Prof. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US))

2019-04-09 15:10: Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms (Prof. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University)

2019-06-10 16:00: NEW drugs from OLD pathways - Teaching Nature New Tricks (Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol)

2019-09-05 11:30: “The crystallisation of organic molecules – a challenge to theory and experiment” (Prof Sarah (Sally) L Price, University College London)

2019-09-11 14:15: "Quantum Chemistry in the Continuum" (Professor Anna Krylov, University of Southern California)

2019-09-12 14:15: Biomolecular interactions in crowded cellular environments (Dr Yuji Sugita, Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research)

2019-11-25 13:00: Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation? (Novartis - Dr Adrian Clarke, Dr Chi Ming Cheung & Dr Aude Figuccia)

2020-01-15 14:00: The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals (Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign))

2020-01-15 14:15: Small Things Make Big Differences (Professor Catherine J. Murphy  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign))

2020-01-16 15:00: The Risks of Climate Change:  What is Plan B?  Climate Repair (Professor Sir David King)

2020-01-20 16:00: Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds (Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb)

2020-02-20 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley)

2020-03-12 14:00: Lewis Lecture (Part I): Title TBC (Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool))

2020-03-13 11:00: Lewis Lecture (Part II): Title TBC (Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool))

2020-03-20 17:00: CANCELLED: Alex Hopkins Lecture: the joy of discovery (Professor Ben Feringa, University of Groningen)

2020-03-25 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester)

2020-04-21 16:00: RSC Award Lecture: Title TBC (Prof. David Britt (U.C Davies, USA))

2021-01-13 14:15: Colloidal Photocatalysis for Organic Synthesis and Energy Conversion (Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University )

2021-01-13 15:30: “It’s how you think, not what you think about”: a Career Spent at Interfaces (Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University )

2021-01-14 14:15: Studies in Dexter Energy Transfer with Quantum Dot Donors (Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University )

2021-06-10 14:00: Who gets to do research? -  Equity in STEMM viewed through a funding lens (Prof. Rachel Oliver (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge))

2022-07-14 14:00: Electrons in novel materials, water, and their interplay (Prof Mischa Bonn, MPI )

2022-07-20 11:00: Insights from Physical Chemistry into the Aerosol Route for Respiratory Disease Transmission (Prof Jonathan Reid, University of Bristol)

2022-08-12 14:00: Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico (Prof Charlie Sykes, Tufts)

2022-08-31 14:00: Protein phase transitions in health and disease (Prof Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge)

2022-09-01 14:00: Conjugated organic and carbon nitride photocatalysts for solar driven hydrogen synthesis: insights from time resolved spectroscopies (Prof James Durrant, ICL)

2022-09-29 14:00: Understanding and tuning the surface chemistry of perovskite oxides to activate oxygen exchange and water splitting (Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT)

2022-10-26 10:30: Protection against self-oxidation by copper oxygenases  (Prof. Paul Walton, University of York)

2022-10-26 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Paul Walton, University of York)

2022-10-26 15:30: Gender Equity in Academia: Why and How (Prof. Paul Walton, University of York)

2023-02-01 16:00: The importance of fundamental hydrocarbons and their use in step economic total synthesis (Dr Madison Sowden, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (formerly at Australian National University, Canberra))

2023-02-07 16:00: Simplified Earth-abundant metal catalysis, C–H activation and transborylation  (Dr Jamie Docherty, The University of Manchester)

2023-02-09 16:00: Iron catalysed cyclotrimerisation: Reactions of alkynes and phosphaalkynes (Dr Ruth Webster, University of Bath)

2023-02-13 16:00: Mechanistic design, understanding, and multicatalysis in the development of catalytic chemical processes (Dr Pawel Dydio, University of Strasbourg)

2023-03-21 16:00: ‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’ (Professor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL)

2023-03-24 17:00: The Joy of Discovery - A Lecture in Memory of Alex Hopkins  (Professor Ben Feringa)

2023-03-28 14:00: Exploring chemical reactivity in the age of automation and ML (Professor Fernanda Duarte, University of Oxford)

2023-03-29 16:00: Modernist Materials Synthesis: Finding Thermodynamic Shortcuts with Hyperdimensional Chemistry (Professor Jamie Neilson, Colorado State University  )

2023-04-06 14:00: Weakly Bound Molecular Materials: Competing Energy Scales, Quantum Effects and More (Dr Mariana Rossi, MPI)

2023-04-17 16:00: Machine-learning-enabled discovery of extreme chemistry (Prof. Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick)

2023-04-20 16:00: The shape of things to come (Professor Nicola Marzari, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI))

2023-04-25 14:00: From theoretical chemistry to integrated drug discover platforms. Methods and applications (Prof. Artem Cherkasov, University of British Columbia)

2023-12-01 14:00: Computational Chemistry Event (Dr Kadi Liis Sar, Dr Emma King-Smith, Dr Sam Niblett and Professor Angelos Michaelides)

2024-05-14 14:00: Fundamentals and Recent Advances in Controlled Radical Polymerization (ProfessorKrzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)

2024-05-16 14:00: Macromolecular Engineering by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)

2024-11-20 14:00: Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials (Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment))

2024-11-20 14:00: Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials (Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment))

2024-11-20 14:00: Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials (Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment))

2024-11-20 14:00: Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials (Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment))

2024-11-27 14:00: "Marvellous metastabilities of battery cathode materials" (Dr Annalena Genreith-Schriever, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-28 14:00: "Machine learning methods for finite-temperature full-quantum simulations: towards predictive modelling of condensed-phase interfaces" (Dr Venkat Kapil, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL)

2024-12-02 14:00: "Enabling the first-principles modelling of electrochemical interfaces at the nanoscale" (Dr. Clotilde Cucinotta, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London)

2024-12-05 11:00: "New guidelines for molecular materials design beyond the frontier orbital picture" (Dr Felix Plasser, Dept. of Chemistry, Loughborough University)

2025-01-31 14:00: Understanding Battery Function - New Metrologies, New Chemistries and New Insights (Professor Dame Clare P. Grey, FRS, DBE + 3 Researcher Presentations)

2025-02-26 14:00: Rotational Orientation Effects in Hydrogen Surface Scattering (Dr Helen Chadwick )

2025-03-04 14:00: What We Can’t See (Yet): How Simulations Reveal Properties of Biomolecules (Dr Konstantin Röder, Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College)

2025-03-06 14:00: Harnessing Free Energy in Chemistry: A Theory-Driven Approach (Dr Emanuele Penocchio, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University)

2025-03-10 15:00: Rethinking molecular quantum theory: a geometric approach (Dr Hugo Burton, Dept. of Chemistry, UCL)

2025-03-11 14:00: Toward Reducing Aerosol-Forcing and Climate Projection Uncertainties (Dr Xu-Cheng He, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2025-03-17 15:00: Quantum Chemistry of Molecular Building Blocks (Dr Bo Peng, Cavendish Laboratory)

2025-03-25 14:00: Optical Force Mapping in Polymeric Materials (Dr Jessica Clough, Adolphe Merkle Institute, Fribourg)

2025-03-26 14:00: Revealing Structural Heterogeneity at Interfaces by Taking Second-Order Vibrational Spectroscopy to Higher Dimensionality (Dr Alexander Fellows, Fritz Haber Institut, Berlin)

2025-04-03 16:00: 2024 Novo Nordisk Prize Lectures (Professors Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Sir David Klenerman)

2025-04-04 10:30: Frontiers in Biophysics and Chemical Biology symposium (Professor Ed Boyden, MIT; Professor Jason Chin, University of Cambridge; Professor Thomas Carrell from LMU, Munich; Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago; and Professor Xiaowei Zhang, Harvard University.)

2025-04-22 14:00: Mapping Coupled Ionic, Electronic and Structural Dynamics in Chemical Systems Through New Micro-Spectroscopic Techniques (Dr Raj Pandya, Physical Chemistry, University of Warwick)

2025-04-23 14:00: Simulating light driven processes with quasi-classical trajectories: from molecules to solids (Dr Aaron Kelly, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg)

2025-04-28 14:00: Augmenting the Spectroscopy of Materials with Nonclassical Light and Machine Learning (Dr Andrew Proppe, Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics, University of Ottawa)

2025-04-28 15:00: Antibody Discovery and Engineering by Computational Design (Dr Pietro Sormanni, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2025-05-01 14:00: Leveraging Quantum Computation for Electronic Structure Theory (Dr Maria-Andreea Filip, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2025-05-21 11:00: Is recycling just a load of rubbish? (Dr. Claire Barlow -  Emeritus Faculty, Engineering Dept, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-15 14:30: Reaction-Driven Formation of Novel Active Sites on Catalytic Surfaces (Professor Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2025-11-19 12:00: Integration of electrochemical and microbial electrochemical CO2 conversion process towards Net Zero (Professor Eileen Yu - School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton)

2026-03-16 14:30: Catalytic Transfer Reactions of Non-Stabilized Carbenes (Purdue University)

 : Lewis Lecturer: 26th- 29th April (Prof. Timothy Manning Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 : Melville Lecturer: 2nd-6th May (Prof. Karen L. Wooley, Texas A&M University)