• Question: what areas do you cover?

    Asked by jimmy to Alan, Ciorsdaidh, Lauren, Leonie, Martin, Neil, Shuo on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Lauren Webster

      Lauren Webster answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      We cover a lot of diseases from Cancer to antibacterial infections to neurological diseases to infective diseases. My role within this is to make and design potential medicines that can be used to treat these diseases. Although I do chemistry, my job involves me to know a lot about biology as well as using computers to view something I cannot see, like proteins!

    • Photo: Neil Keddie

      Neil Keddie answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      My group does research into a number of areas from making new components of liquid crystals to make your screens better, through to synthetic insect pheromones (chemicals that attract insects) and even molecules that can be used to help diagnose cancer. All of these bits of research involve putting fluorine into molecules in special places, to give the molecules special properties for the applications we want.

    • Photo: Alan McCue

      Alan McCue answered on 9 Mar 2018:

      For teaching – I teach about catalysts and oil & gas chemistry as they are very much related. We take oil and convert it into other chemicals using catalysts…

    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      As a chemical physicist, I work at the interface of chemistry, physics and maths. Specifically, I work closely with astronomers and astrophysicists to understand the role of chemistry in the evolving Universe.

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