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Winter 2015 Issue of Chem@Cam Chemistry at Cambridge Newsletter WINTER 2015 ISSUE 52 Electrifying Battery Chemistry INSIDE: Athena SWAN Going for Silver Where are they now: Tim Guilliams Knowledge Transfer: Yolande Cordeaux www.ch.cam.ac.uk Q&A: John Pyle 4 Letter from the Head of Department 5 News 6 Contents Alumni 10 Research 14 Noticeboard 18 RESEARCH 16 Battery Chemistry Research NEWS ALUMNI 8 10 Athena SWAN Tim Guilliams Welcome to the new look Chem@Cam On the cover.... Lithium-air battery demonstrator made by the Grey Group Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EW 01223 761479 [email protected] www.ch.cam.ac.uk Views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Editor, the Department of Chemistry or the University of Cambridge Printer:Hobbs the Printers CONTRIBUTORS irst of all, I want to thank my predecessor, Dr Sarah Houlton, who steered this magazine for over ten years, through the Diane Harris noughties and beyond. She introduced its much-loved Contributing editor, Project features, most of which have been included in my first Delivery Coordinator edition. Others, like ChemDoku (my personal favourite), Sharon Connor Copy editor, Senior Secretary Compare & Contrast and As I see it, we intend to bring back as we F Nathan Pitt develop. But I want to hear from you, the readership. What do you Photographer, Head think about the features? How should they develop? of Photography and Reprographics Publishing your comments, positive or negative, is the job of a good modern magazine. And I look forward to receiving your letters, texts and emails. Carmen Pryce Editor 3 ISSUE 52 DECEMBER 2015 Q&A John Pyle On October 1, 2015, John Pyle, the 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry, was appointed Head of Department. John is clear about the challenges for the Department of Chemistry. “We are a great department and we have wonderful people across the board. Give them the tools and they’ll deliver! The funding environment is changing rapidly so we need to be agile and inventive. It’s crucial that we maintain our base of superb fundamental science while at the same time we respond to these new challenges”. John’s Letter from the Head of Department (see opposite) is a new feature, published here for the first time. But he is also the first to take part in our second new feature, a light-hearted Q&A: What is your earliest memory? What did you want to be when you were Which living scientist do you most Sitting in a dark and gloomy room in growing up? admire? Manchester with my brother while I wanted to be like my brother. He was Well, I’ve got two actually. Sir John some family drama was happening and ten years older than me, and became a Houghton and Paul Crutzen. Sir John was wondering what was going on? chemical engineer. I admired him so I head of department when I did my DPhil followed him into science. But I didn’t want at Oxford. He was Professor of Atmospheric What do you owe your parents? to do exactly the same as him so I did my Physics, then head of the Met Office and Everything, they were both inspirational. first degree in physics. founder of the Hadley Centre. He sees My father worked on the railways as obstacles as opportunities. a signalman and my mother was a What makes you happy? confectioner. He taught himself five When Bolton Wanderers win. Paul Crutzen popularised the geological languages and was interested in music, term for the period we are in now – the reading, everything. And my mother used Anthropocene - and won a Nobel Prize in to help me with my homework and was Chemistry. just a brilliant mum. 4 Letter from the Head of Department Which deceased scientist do you most What or who is the greatest love of your I am writing this after just six admire? life? weeks as Head of Department. I Joe Farman was a geophysicist who Who is family and what is hills and am honoured to take on the role discovered the ozone hole over Antarctica. mountains, any mountains. We used to go of leading one of the world’s very He worked for the British Antarctic Survey for family weekend walks in the Pennines. best chemistry departments. and when he retired he came and worked Glorious. I am very conscious of the here. He was quiet but lots of fun. That contributions made by a series discovery really defined him and he used it What do you most dislike about your of great predecessors. I want in to influence industry and policy. appearance? particular to thank Daan Frenkel, Increasingly, whenever I catch myself in my immediate predecessor, What is the trait you deplore most in multiple mirrors I see the growing bald for all his efforts, both for the scientists? patch! But there’s nothing to be done. department and for me as I hate it when people make a real mess incoming Head. of their office. (John’s rather small galley- Who would play you in the film of your style office is crammed with files, papers life? The department is in excellent and books. The desk is festooned with Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro, just health. We have superb academic stuff but the computer, phone and 19th because, over the years people have leaders, brilliant support staff and century silver and glass pen and inkstand said I look like them. Can’t see it myself. fantastic students. We finished sit proudly in their places, clearly well I was once mistaken for Angus Deayton top in the 2014 UK Research used ...and loved. I believe he’s joking? Ed.) but I wouldn’t want him to play me, and Excellence Framework exercise. It’s not a general trait but I once heard a definitely can’t or won’t see that! In international ranking tables, relatively well-known atmospheric chemist we remain in the handful of top chemistry departments describe science as a contact sport. I What is your most unappealing habit? worldwide. found that repugnant. Although science Sulking when Bolton Wanderers lose. is competitive, it’s also about meeting, To maintain our position is a collaborating and working together to What is the worst job you’ve done? challenge at a time when, in make useful contributions to society. Chairing a committee with two sides that real terms, science funding is didn’t get on. They were trying to develop declining. We have ambitious What is the trait you deplore most in a piece of scientific equipment and the plans for new buildings and yourself? house was divided. It was horrible, just infrastructure and for enhanced Prevarication (I haven’t found him so, yet! awful. research support at all levels – Ed.) students, research fellows and What has been your biggest both starting and established What is your most treasured piece of disappointment? academics. So I’m immensely equipment? Minor ones for sure - for example, I wish grateful for some very generous Well, I do like fountain pens and I have a (my family wishes!) I could sing – but financial support, including Mont Blanc Meisterstück (Meisterstueck, an nothing major. I’m a pretty positive person: recently from Yusuf Hamied and old fashioned German expression, denoting when one door closes, another opens and I the Walters Kundert Charitable a piece of work an apprentice produces to have been lucky with open doors. Trust, as discussed elsewhere in become a master in his trade). these pages. What was your biggest discovery? What is the closest you’ve come to I remember I had a penny drop moment, I will be writing in more detail in death? when I could picture how and why the future editions of Chem@Cam. Well, my brother died in an accident in polar atmosphere behaves as it does. It’s I am always happy to hear from the mountains and my daughter’s car was complex but I had got the physical picture you. written off recently and you know, one in my head. minute you’re here and the next... Yours, What next? Well, it’s a bit like going into the unknown. There is a range of things that can be done to help the department and strengthen what we do. I hope whatever it is will be fun, challenging and rewarding. John Pyle 5 ISSUE 52 DECEMBER 2015 News working as an unpaid senior postdoc in Professor Jeremy K. M. Sanders timeline Chris Hunter’s group. There he will continue to do research and use his vast experience • 1969: BSc Imperial College to help young researchers, nudge projects London • 1972: PhD Cambridge along and generally ‘be useful’. • 1972: Postdoctoral researcher Stanford University • 1973–1996: Demonstrator, Laboratory Opens Lecturer, then Reader the Department of Chemistry • 1995: Elected Fellow of the Royal Doors Society Sanders’ Secret • 1996: Professor ver 90 guests attended • 2000–2006: Head of the the opening ceremony Symposium Department of Chemistry of the Yusuf Hamied • 2006–2010: Deputy Vice- Laboratory for Chemical symposium celebrating the Chancellor, responsible for Synthesis & Catalysis on research career of Professor overseeing the University’s 800th O12 September 2015. Anniversary celebrations Jeremy Sanders was held in • 2009–2011: Head of the School of the Department of Chemistry Physical Sciences The new state-of-the-art research on 4 September 2015, but • 2009: Davy Medal, Royal Society laboratory, which was made possible Athe speakers remained a mystery until the • 2011–2015: Pro Vice-Chancellor by the generous support of Dr Yusuf K day before the Symposium.
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