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
Contact
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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
FLEXICHEM: Flexible Digital Chemical Manufacturing Through Structure/Reactivity Relationships
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2024
FLEXICHEM: Flexible Digital Chemical Manufacturing Through Structure/Reactivity Relationships
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/10/2021 to 30/09/2024
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…Dates
17/04/2017 to 31/07/2017
Thesis supervisions
Experimental and computational studies of unusual P-donor ligands and their coordination chemistry
Supervisors
Synthetic and Computational Study Leading Towards Structure-Property Relationships in Poly(aniline)-Based Conjugated Microporous Polymers
Supervisors
Development of Ir(I)-catalysed Hydrofunctionalisation Methodologies
Supervisors
Transition metal catalysis for chemically fuelled rotary molecular-level motion
Supervisors
Leveraging computational chemistry to model photochemical reactions and calculate experimental observables
Supervisors
Computational mechanistic analysis of homogeneous copper-catalysed Ullmann type coupling reactions.
Supervisors
Predicting Regioselectivity in Pd-Catalysed C–H Functionalisation of Aromatic Heterocycles
Supervisors
Electron emission studies of scandium on diamond for thermionic solar energy generation devices
Supervisors
Development of Density Functional Correlation Theories Based on the Unsöld Approximation
Supervisors
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.
