“I studied for a BSc in Chemistry with German before starting a PhD in inorganic chemistry. The School offers great opportunities to do cutting edge research into a wide variety of topics and provides a friendly working environment, with a good support network and modules to enhance your learning.”


JACQUI Nuneaton, Warwickshire Current PhD Chemistry student


Postgraduate Research Opportunities This information will be of interest to chemists, physicists, biochemists aswell as molecular and materials scientists if you have obtained, or expect to obtain, Bachelors orMasters degrees and wish to pursue postgraduate research. Further details of the School’s research activities, specifically the interests of individual staff members listed on pages 8-11, are available on request. Information onMasters courses is available on request. Further details are also available on ourweb pageswww.st-andrews.ac.uk/chemistry


Chemical research has a long and distinguished history at St Andrews. Chemistry has been taught as a subject since 1811 and the first Professorship in Chemistrywas established in 1840. Nobel prize winners Sir Robert Robinson and Sir Norman Haworth carried out their most important research at St Andrews. The School is rated excellent for its teaching quality and itsworld-class breadth and depth is documented by the last RAE where the joint research school (EaStCHEM, i.e. Edinburgh and St Andrews Chemistry) demonstrated an outstanding performance. Edinburgh and St Andrews are both leading Schools with complementary areas of expertise, publications and a similar level of research income (~£12M per year each over the past three years). Our aim is to compete with Chemistry centres of excellence anywhere in theworld, not only with our research but also through our joint training activities.


The advent of EaStCHEM further enhances our research strength with students from St Andrews having equal access to all of the very specialised equipment / techniques being developed at Edinburgh (and vice versa for Edinburgh students).


The Purdie Building and the adjoining Biomolecular Sciences building and the brand-new Biomedical Sciences Research complex offer excellent accommodation and facilities for teaching and research in some of the most modern andwell-equipped laboratories in the UK. In addition, SASOL, the South African based fuels and chemicals giant, has set up its European laboratory in catalysis research here.


The School is equipped to a standard which is recognised internationally as making it one of the world’s top-grade research institutions.We support major facilities across the full spectrum of Chemistry, including NMR (both solution and solid-state), X-ray crystallography (single-crystal, powder and macromolecular), electron microscopy, catalyst evaluation, analytical chemistry, spectroscopy and surface science, together with all the standard chemical evaluation techniques.


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