
Dr Natalie Fey
B.Sc.(Keele), Ph.D.(Keele)
Expertise
We use computational approaches as a driver for scientific discovery, applying computational and structural chemistry alongside data analysis to the large-scale prediction and design of organometallic catalysts.
Current positions
Associate Professor
School of Chemistry
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Biography
Natalie Fey is an Associate Professor at the University of Bristol. She was born in Frechen, Germany, and has retained her German nationality. After completing a B.Sc. in chemistry and economics in 1997 and a Ph.D. focused on “Molecular Modelling of Ferrocenes and Arylphosphines” with James Howell and Paul Yates in 2001, both at Keele University, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Rob Deeth at Warwick University.
She joined the University of Bristol in 2003, initially as a postdoctoral researcher with Guy Orpen and Jeremy Harvey. After an industry-funded postdoctoral position with Guy Lloyd-Jones, Guy Orpen, and Jeremy Harvey (2005−2007), she was awarded a prestigious EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in 2007, starting her independent career. She was appointed to a temporary lectureship in 2015, made permanent in 2017, promoted to senior lecturer in 2018 and to her current role in 2021.
Research interests
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8084 - (OAFI) EP/V050990/1 via Leeds - FLEXICHEM
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2024
EPSRC Equipment award 2020 - Multi-user platform for digital chemistry
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Science Faculty OfficeDates
15/11/2020 to 15/05/2022
Supervised learning to support the optimisation of chemical reactions
Principal Investigator
Description
The PI holds experimental data collected as part of a case study during her EPSRC fellowship (2007-2012); we will seek to re-analyse these results with more advanced statistical approaches. In…Managing organisational unit
Dates
17/04/2017 to 31/07/2017
CHEM ROYAL SOCIETY OF-972999
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
28/07/2016
Dial-a-Molecule projects with Leeds and Loughborough
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/11/2014 to 01/11/2015
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/02/2012Stable Fluorophosphines: Predicted and Realized Ligands for Catalysis
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Expansion of the ligand knowledge base for chelating P,P-donor ligands (LKB-PP)
Organometallics
Expansion of the ligand knowledge base for monodentate P-donor ligands (LKB-P)
Organometallics
The contribution of computational studies to organometallic catalysis: descriptors, mechanisms and models
Dalton Transactions
Recent publications
01/09/20213× Axial vs 3× Equatorial
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Building a Toolbox for the Analysis and Prediction of Ligand and Catalyst Effects in Organometallic Catalysis
Accounts of Chemical Research
Catalytic mechanism of the colistin resistance protein MCR-1
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
Computational Mapping of Dirhodium(II) Catalysts
Chemistry - A European Journal
Iron Catalyzed Double Bond Isomerization
Chemistry - A European Journal
Teaching
I have experience of teaching chemistry at all levels and in a range of different settings, including the development of laboratory classes applying computational methods to analyse organometallic and coordination compounds. I have completed UoB’s CREATE Level 2 programme and was awarded Fellow of the Higher Education Academy status in 2018.