Martin Schröder (chemist)

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Martin Schröder is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He was born of Estonian parents in Buckinghamshire in 1954,^[1] and educated at the local Slough Grammar School. He obtained a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield (1975) and PhD from Imperial College (1978) under the supervision of Professor W.P. Griffith, and after postdoctoral fellowships at the ETH (Professor A. Eschenmoser) on a Royal Society Swiss National Foundation Fellowship and the University of Cambridge (Professor J. Lewis), he was appointed in 1982 to a Senior Demonstratorship at the University of Edinburgh. He was subsequently promoted to Lecturer (1983), Reader (1991) and Professor (1994), and in 1995 moved to his present position as Head and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He was Head of the School of Chemistry at Nottingham from 1999-2005. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada (1990), the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (1995) and the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (2004). He has published 450 publications and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). His awards include the Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1991, a Royal Society of Edinburgh Support Research Fellowship in 1991-2, Tilden Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2001, the Royal Society of Chemistry award for the Chemistry of Transition Metals in 2003, a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2005, a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for 2005/06, and the Royal Society of Chemistry award for Chemistry of the Noble Metals and their Compounds in 2008. In 2005 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Tallinn Technical University, Estonia, in 2009 an ERC Advanced Investigator's Grant, and in 2012 an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. In 2011 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science.

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University listing

References

↑ GRO Register of Births: JUN 1954 6a 541 ETON - Martin Schröder, mmn = Kruus'na

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Name	Schroder, Martin
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Date of birth	1954
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