David Craig visiting professorship

Professor David Craig

The David Craig Visiting Professorship honours a Founding Father of the School, Professor David P Craig, MSc, PhD, FRIC, FRACI, FAA, FRS, by inviting a high-profile internationally recognised chemist whose research activities are of interest to the School, and to provide a mentoring and teaching platform to various research groups.

The Craig Professor will be a researcher who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and who may not previously have had the opportunity to spend time in the School.

Year Professor Home institution Subject

2022

Associate Professor Sagar Khare Rutgers University Computational Design of Tailor-made Enzymes

2019

Professor Mark Lautens

University of Toronto

No Strain, No Gain? Lessons in Catalysis

2017

Professor Peter Schreiner

Justus-Liebig University

Nanodiamondoids as the next generation carbon materials

2016

Professor Denis Jacquemin

Université de Nantes

Using theoretical tools to model, predict and understand optical spectra

2015

Professor Chris Vanderwal

University of California

Quick Access to Complexity. The Importance of Strategy for the Efficient Synthesis of Complex Natural and Unnatural Products

2014

Professor Todd Marder

Universitat Wurzburg, Germany

Boron in Novel Materials and Catalysis

2013

Professor Christopher Lowe

University of Cambridge, UK

mHEALTHCARE: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects

2012

Professor Li Changming

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Surface functionalization, the chemistry arts at nanoscales

2011

Professor Thomas B. Rauchfuss

University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne

Understanding how nature works with H2: the hydrogenase mechanisms

2010

Professor Malcolm H. Levitt

University of Southhampton

Singlet Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

2009

Professor Joel Bernstein

Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel

Chemistry in the courtroom

2008

Professor Colin Bain

Durham University, UK

Light: the world's most unlikely construction material

2007

Professor Steven Boxer

Stanford University, CA, USA

Imaging and reaction dynamics in model membranes: soft nanoscience

2006

Professor Ken Jordan

University of Pittsburg, PA, USA

Excess electrons and protons in water: a cluster perspective

2005

Professor Alfred W (Bill) Rutherford

Research Director CNRS and Head of Section, Bioenergetics CEA, France

Photosystem II structure-function: the EPR years

2004

Professor Peter Stang

The University of Utah, Department of Chemistry

Nanoscale molecular architecture: design and self-assembly of metallocyclic polygons & polyhedra via co-ordination".

2003

Professor Victor Snieckus

Queens University, Department of Chemistry

The centrality of chemistry in modern scientific pursuits"

2002

Dr Chris Abell

University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge

Enzymology

2001

Professor Dame Julia Higgins FRS

Imperial College, London

Polymer blends - mixing, demixing and compatibilisation

2000

Professor Peter Maitlis FRS

The University of Sheffield, UK

The revolution in English Universities, 1980-2000: out with the old; long live the new

1999

Professor Henry Schaefer III

Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, USA

Molecular anions: a wealth of important, uncharacterized systems

1998

Professor Christopher J Moody

University of Exeter, UK

Organic chemistry: the practice of wealth creation

1997

Professor Walter Steurer

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Quasicrystals 1984-1996. Where are we now?

1996

Professor David Buckingham FRS

University of Cambridge, UK

The hydrogen bond