Christopher Serpell, University of Kent: Going beyond nature in the supramolecular chemistry of nucleic acids

When: Mon, 14.11.2022, 16:00

Where: Loschmidt lecture hall & live stream

Dr. Serpell achieved his DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry with Prof. Paul Beer at the University of Oxford in 2010 on the topic of anion coordination. He remained there as an EPSRC PhD+ Awardee, before moving to Prof. Hanadi Sleiman’s group at McGill University, Montreal in 2011 on a Tomlinson, and then a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship where he worked on polymers in DNA nanotechnology. He returned to Oxford in 2014 to work with Prof. Ben Davis FRS as a Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher on biological imaging using carbon nanotubes. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Kent in 2015, Senior Lecturer in 2018, and Reader in 2020.

Live stream: https://chemie.univie.ac.at/fakultaetskolloquium