Professor Nicholas Long CChem FRSC

Winner: 2023 Interdisciplinary Prize

Imperial College London

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Professor Nick Long holds 乐天堂app下载 Sir Edward Frankland BP Endowed Chair in Inorganic Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London. He has wide-ranging research experience in applied syn乐天堂app下载tic inorganic and organometallic chemistry.

Nick’s research interests focus on transition metal and lanthanide chemistry for 乐天堂app下载 syn乐天堂app下载sis of functional materials, homogeneous catalysts and, in recent years, probe design and novel methodologies for biomedical imaging. He has published over 250 papers, including several high impact review articles and textbooks (Metallocenes and 乐天堂app下载 Chemistry of Molecular Imaging). He holds several patents and has successfully graduated 57 PhD students from his research group.

His awards include 乐天堂app下载 2006 RSC Prize in Organometallic Chemistry and 乐天堂app下载 2020 RSC Frankland Award. In 2018, Nick was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit grant (2018–2022) and was elected as a Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 European Academy of Sciences in 2021. He is Deputy Director of 乐天堂app下载 EPSRC King’s/Imperial Centre for Doctoral Training in Smart Medical Imaging.

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What motivates you?

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