Dr. Stuart Mackenzie

Biography

Stuart is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of Magdalen College. He leads a research group focused on the structure reactivity of gas-phase metal clusters and the photochemical origins of animal magnetoreception. Stuart was born and raised in County Durham and studied Chemistry and Physics at the University of Leeds from 1989 to 1992. He then pursued a DPhil at Oxford from 1992 to 1996. During his studies, he met his future wife, Professor Christiane Timmel, who was also a graduate student in the department. He held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship in Boulder, Colorado, with David Nesbitt, as well as a Ramsay Memorial/Drapers’ Company fellowship upon returning to Oxford to work with Professor Tim Softley, FRS. He held an academic position at the University of Warwick from 1999 to 2006, where he developed an interest in metal cluster science. In 2006, Stuart's group moved to the University of Cambridge, where he took up an Official Fellowship at Pembroke College. In 2008, he returned to Oxford, taking a Fellowship at Magdalen College, and was promoted to Professor in 2014, serving as Head of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry from 2015 to 2020.

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