The Chemistry Department at Lancaster University have organised a number of 45 minute talks to be delivered by academics, either in person and/or online. These talks are based on the teaching and research that is currently taking place within Lancaster’s Chemistry Department, and offer a great opportunity for your A level (or equivalent) students to get an insight into the experience of studying undergraduate Chemistry.

Talks available

• What is Graphene and what can it do for you? An in person talk with John Griffin including demonstrations.

• An Atom’s Eye View – Understanding the Chemical Structures of Materials: John Griffin delivers the session in person or online.

• My Journey in Chemistry Research: John Griffin delivers the session in person or online.

• Chemical Matchmaking: How Catalysis Fuels Our World: Jamie Docherty delivers the session in person or online.

• Sustainable Light-emitting Technology: An in person talk with Jonathan Ward including demonstrations.

• Organic Chemistry in your everyday life: Maria Paz Munoz delivers the session in person or online.

• Visualising molecules in 3D tutorial/demo: Maria Paz Munoz delivers the session in person or online including demonstrations.

• Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methodology- What, Why and How? Julien Doulcet delivers the session in person or online.

• The Power of Polymers: Rachel Platel delivers the session in person or online.
• The Importance of Energy in our World - A Chemistry Perspective: Lefteris Danos delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Viewing the Mechanical Bond through the Looking Glass - Chiral Interlocked Molecules: Nick Evans delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Powering the Future with Solar Cells: John Fielden delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Sending Chemical Spies into a Medical World: Nick Fletcher delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Chemistry of Chocolate: Nick Fletcher delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Expediting Drug Discovery with Metal Catalysis: Vil Franckevicius delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Unlocking the Secrets of Chemistry with Computers: Nourdine Zibouche delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• “Exciting Molecules”: Colour and the Quantum World of the Electron: Michael Peach delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Curly Arrows & Quantum Chemistry: Andy Kerridge delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Mysteries of the f-elements: how can computational chemistry inform the treatment of spent nuclear fuel? Andy Kerridge delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• The Secret Life of Surfaces: From Catalysis to the Smallest Light Switch in the World: Stijn Mertens delivers the session in person or online.
  
  
• Chemical Factories in the Body: David Middleton delivers this session in person or online.

If you’d like to request a particular talk, please email chemistry@lancaster.ac.uk with the talk title, your preference for in person or online, and suggested dates.