Department of Chemistry
Chemistry plays a key role in tackling the big questions facing humanity. Understanding climate change, developing solutions for the circular economy, ensuring food security, and fighting and curing disease are all areas where chemistry is needed. The chemical industry creates wealth and wellbeing for society.
Chemists seek solutions to the major problems facing humanity, such as tackling climate change, greener fuels and eradicating incurable diseases. Chemistry has given us a huge number of applications that we use every day. These innovations will not happen without a deep understanding of chemistry and extensive basic research.
Chemistry graduates can work in positions such as product development and quality assurance in industry, as experts in regulatory and supervisory organisations, as teachers, researchers in universities or research institutes, as managers, in sales and customer service or as entrepreneurs.
The diverse research interests at the Department of Chemistry are categorised into four core research areas – Functional Molecules and Materials, Chemical Nanoscience, Circular Economy and Chemistry Education – that go beyond the traditional sub-disciplines of chemistry. Many research groups work in more than one area of strength, and our infrastructure is shared by all researchers.
Researchers work in interdisciplinary collaboration with other departments and units in the faculty. A significant part of our research is carried out in the interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre. National and international collaboration is strong and vibrant. The department frequently hosts visiting students, trainees and researchers. Our research aims for impact and scientific breakthroughs.
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