Varinder Aggarwal FRS, Alfred Capper Pass Professor of Chemistry, has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the largest and most prestigious national academy in India.
School of Chemistry researchers Dr Kieran Stanley, Dr Maria de los Angeles Garavagno, Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, Professor Dudley Shallcross, Dr Angelina Wenger and Dr Anwar Khan have been awarded a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to study the environmental fates of a new generation of fluorocarbon gases being used as replacements for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigeration, and as propellant and foam-blowing gases.
The School of Chemistry's Professor Anthony Davis has been awarded the prestigious Royal Medal for Applied Sciences by the Royal Society.
Former School of Chemistry PhD student Dr Harry Destecroix has received an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the New Year Honours list for services to science.
School of Chemistry researchers Professor Neil Fox and Dr James Smith are among a group of scientists and engineers to have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, an incredibly long-lasting energy source with the potential to power devices for thousands of years.
Dr Bryan Bzdek, Proleptic Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and member of Bristol Aerosol Research Centre, was presented the 2024 Kenneth T. Whitby Award at the 42nd American Association for Aerosol Research Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Professor Dudley Shallcross has been appointed chair of the Curriculum Committee at the the Royal Society of Biology.
Researchers in the School of Chemistry have contributed towards a recent paper in Nature that describes a new type of insulin which responds to the amount of glucose in the blood, becoming more active at high levels when it is needed and less active at low levels.
The School of Chemistry's Professor Varinder Aggarwal has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.
The School of Chemistry's Professor Dek Woolfson has been announced as one of the winners of the Vincent du Vigneaud Awards for 2025.
