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Professor Steve Armes (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): polymerisation at surfaces by atom-transfer radical polymerisation, polymer brushes for nanofabrication and control of biological organization.
Professor Lee Brammer (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): metal organic framework structures for the layer-by-layer synthesis of functional inorganic structures.
Dr Ashley Cadby (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield): nano-optics, including time-resolved spectroscopy at the molecular scale, near-field optics and sub-diffraction-limit optical microscopy.
Dr Barbara Ciani (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): synthetic coiled-coil peptide structures - designing biomolecular structure and function from the bottom-up.
Dr Kevin Critchley (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds): Self-assembly, quantum dots, nanowires, self-assembled monolayers.
Professor John Cunningham (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds): high frequency electronics, surface acoustic waves, semiconductor nanotechnology.
Dr Lorna Dougan (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds): Single molecule manipulation, molecular self-assembly, polypeptide chain aggregation.
Professor Steve Evans (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds): lipid membranes, self-assembly at surfaces, nanowires and nanoparticles.
Professor Mark Geoghegan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield): polymer diffusion at surfaces, switchable adhesion at polymer brush interfaces, and biological interactions of polymer films.
Professor Chris Hunter FRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): fundamental investigations of the nature of intermolecular interactions, development of new methods for studying solvation phenomena, molecular design of functional assemblies.
Professor Neil Hunter FRS (Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield): biogenesis, organization and function of membranes; photosynthesis.
Dr Lars Jeuken (Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds): redox-active membrane enzymes, biosensors, nanotoxicity.
Dr Simon Jones (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): methods for asymmetric synthesis, construction of molecular probes of biologically active molecules, synthesis of biologically active molecules.
Professor Jennifer Kirkham (Leeds Dental Institute, University of Leeds): biomineralisation, skeletal tissue engineering, molecular imaging.
Professor David Lidzey (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield): optical and electronic properties of organic nanostructures; organic polymer-based photovoltaic cells.
Professor Edmund Linfield (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds): semiconductor nanotechnology, electron-beam lithography, optical and electronic devices.
Professor Michael McPherson (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds): artificial binding proteins for diagnostics, imaging and therapy, self-assembling peptide production, and embrane protein structural genomics
Profressor Adam Nelson (School of Chemistry, University of Leeds): synthesis of biologically active compounds, diversity-oriented synthesis, chemical genetics, chemical biology, directed evolution of enzymes for use in organic synthesis.
Dr Arwen Pearson (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds): crystal structure, protein dymanics.
Dr Jim Reid (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): molecular and mechanistic detail of living systems, principally enzymes and enzyme mechanisms.
Dr Sarah Staniland (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds): bio/mineral nanomaterial architectures for nanotechnological and biomedical applications.
Profressor Peter Stockley (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds): protein-nucleic acid interactions, genetic regulatory mechanisms, virus assembly.
Dr Jim Thomas (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): synthetic organic and coordination chemistry, metal-templated self-assembly, luminescent DNA binding probes.
Dr Neil Thompson (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds): biological Physics, bionanotechnology, atomic force microscopy.
Professor Nick Williams (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield): physical organic, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, mechanism, reactivity and catalysis, functional supramolecular systems and surface engineering.
Dr Luke Wilson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield): Optoelectronic devices, near-infrared and far-infrared spectroscopy of self-assembled quantum dots, hybrid bio-inorganic structures.
