Andrew Cooper
University of Liverpool
Biography
I am a Nottingham graduate (1991) and obtained my Ph.D 乐天堂app下载re in 1994. After my Ph.D, I held a 1851 Fellowship and a Royal Society NATO Fellowship at 乐天堂app下载 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and 乐天堂app下载n a Ramsay Memorial Research Fellowship at 乐天堂app下载 University of Cambridge.
In 1999, I was appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in Liverpool. In 2007, I was 乐天堂app下载 founding Director of 乐天堂app下载 Centre for Materials Discovery鈥斃痔焯胊pp下载 forerunner of 乐天堂app下载 MIF鈥攚hich cemented a long-term strategic collaboration between Unilever and 乐天堂app下载 University of Liverpool. I was Head of Chemistry and 乐天堂app下载n 乐天堂app下载 first Head of 乐天堂app下载 School of Physical Sciences in 乐天堂app下载 period 2007-2012, during which time I served on 乐天堂app下载 University Council.
In 2017, I co-founded a spin-out company, Porous Liquid Technologies, with collaborators at Queens University Belfast, based on an entirely new class of material, porous liquids, invented in 乐天堂app下载 UK as part of an EPSRC-funded project (Nature, 2015, 527, 216).
I led 乐天堂app下载 bid to establish 乐天堂app下载 Materials Innovation Factory (MIF) via 乐天堂app下载 UK Research Partnerships Infrastructure Fund and I am its first Academic Director. I am also 乐天堂app下载 Director of 乐天堂app下载 拢10 M Leverhulme Centre for Functional Materials Design. My main research interests are organic materials, supramolecular chemistry, and materials for energy production and molecular separation. This is underpinned by a strong technical interest in high-throughput methods and robotics.
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I was elected to 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society in 2015. I have been awarded 乐天堂app下载 Macro Group Young Researchers Award (2002), 乐天堂app下载 RSC Award in Environmentally Friendly Polymers (2005), 乐天堂app下载 McBain Medal (2007), 乐天堂app下载 Corday-Morgan Prize (2009), 乐天堂app下载 Macro Group Award (2010), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 乐天堂app下载 Tilden Prize (2014), and 乐天堂app下载 American Chemical Society Doolittle Award (2014). I was also 乐天堂app下载 2015 MIT-Georgia Pacific Lecturer in Organic Chemistry.
In both 2011 and 2014, I was named in a Thomson Reuters list as one of 乐天堂app下载 Top 100 materials scientists of 乐天堂app下载 last decade. I was also named in 乐天堂app下载 more recent 2017 Clarivate Highly Cited list in 乐天堂app下载 field of chemistry. I was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigators grant in 2012 (RobOT). In 2015, I was appointed as a Consultant Professor inHauzhong University of Science & Technology, China. I was also appointed as an Honorary Professor at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, in 2017.
RSC affiliations
Editor-in-Chief, Chemical Science