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Fluorescence-Lifetime Super-Resolution Microscopy

UserProf Jörg Enderlein, Georg August University, Göttingen.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Challenges for the Montreal Protocol revealed in atmospheric measurements

RSC 2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Mid-Career Prize Winner

UserProf Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

New Approaches to Characterise the Surface and Bulk Compositions of Picolitre Droplets

RSC 2023 Faraday Early Career Prize: Marlow Prize Winner

UserDr Bryan Bzdek, University of Bristol.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Prediction-Led Discovery of Functional Molecular Organic Crystals

RSC 2023 Corday-Morgan Prize Winner

UserProf Graeme Day, University of Southampton.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2024, 15:15-16:15

Chaperone-mediated neuroprotection against protein aggregation

UserProf Cláudio M. Gomes, University of Lisbon.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Droplet Microfluidics for Biophysics and Biotechnology

UserDavid Weitz, Harvard University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

Curious Electrostatics in Concentrated Electrolytes

UserProf Susan Perkin, University of Oxford.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

In-situ Liquid TEM: Imaging Iron Corrosion

UserSurabhi Agrawal, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 11:30-12:00

Air pollution and climate change in the UK: A future perspective and open questions

UserDr Alex Archibald, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 11:00-11:30

Modelling Some of the Environmental Impacts of a Hydrogen Economy

UserProf John Pyle, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2021, 11:30-12:00

Imaging the First Events in T-Cell Activation

UserMarkus Koerbel, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2021, 11:00-11:30

Using the Analytical Power of Surface Science for “New” Challenges

UserProf Giovanni Costantini, University of Warwick.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Investigating Disorder in Solids using NMR Spectroscopy, Isotopic Enrichment and First-Principles Calculations

UserProf Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Ice and Surface Chemistry in Space

UserProf Wendy Brown, University of Sussex.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Designing brighter dyes for advanced fluorescence microscopy

UserDr Luke Lavis, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 23 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Liquid microjet photoelectron spectroscopy

UserProf Helen Fielding, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

UserAlex Fellows & Dr Lucien Weiss & Dr Hans de Leeuw, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Methods for rapid 3D fluorescence microscopy

UserDr Reto Fiolka, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Molecular Tools for Imaging and Controlling Complex Biological Systems

UserProf Ed Boyden, MIT.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

UserDr Thomas Aubry & Sabine Matysik & Ezra Bruggeman, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Covariance-map imaging: a new tool for chemical dynamics studies

UserProf Claire Vallance, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

UserDr John Danial & James Weber & Dr Mike Casford, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates

UserProfessor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators

UserProfessor Randall Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin Madison.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Disorder by Design

UserProf. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Electron cryomicroscopy of biological structures: overcoming the barriers to further progress.

UserRichard Henderson, MRC lab.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Halocarbons in Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology: New opportunities and challenges

UserPierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy: from new tools to insights into printable photovoltaic materials

UserJustin Hodgkiss, RSC Easterfield Prize Winner 2016.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

UserProfessor Dirks Aarts ( Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford).

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 10 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Inside a Collapsing Bubble: Sonochemistry and Sonoluminescence

UserProf Kenneth S Suslick, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Using redox mediators for Li-O2 and Li-S batteries and Li recycling

UserProf Nuria Garcia-Araez, University of Southampton.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

New approaches to imaging angiogenesis and oxidative stress in living systems.

UserSarah Bohndiek (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

De novo Design of Transmembrane Helix-Helix Interactions in Membrane Proteins

UserDr Anne Dixon, University of Warwick.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Extending the Range of the Glassy State: Novel properties and applications exploiting non-crystallinity

UserProfessor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Shedding new light on photochemistry in nature: from biological motifs to photoactive protein chromophores

UserProfessor Helen Fielding, University College London.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 19 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Tissue-like materials from communicating droplet networks

UserProfessor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 12 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Studying membrane bioactivity with super-resolution optical microscopy

UserProfessor Christian Eggeling, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 05 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

CANCELLED Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

UserProfessor Dirks Aarts ( Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford).

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 22 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probing gene control at the molecular stage

UserProfessor Mark C. Leake, University of York.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Small is beautiful: low cost air quality sensors and sensor networks show what they can do

UserProfessor Rod Jones, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Shining new light on chemistry and biology with inteferometric scattering microscopy

UserProfessor Philipp Kukura ( Dept of Chemistry, University of Oxford ).

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Ultrafast infra-red spectroscopy as a probe of chemical reaction mechanisms.

UserProfessor Andrew Orr-Ewing – University of Bristol.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Urban Air Quality: An Increasing Challenge for Public Health

UserProfessor Frank Kelly, King's College London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminars

UserGrad speakers to be confirmed.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 15:30-17:00

RSC Lecture

UserProfessor Eric Bakker, University of Geneva.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Ionic Liquids: Applications in the Chemical-, Electro- and Bio- Sciences

UserDouglas R. MacFarlane Australian Centre for Electromaterials Science Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 16 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Physical Chemistry

Unpicking the local structure of adsorbate molecules on surfaces atom by atom

UserProfessor Phil Woodruff, University of Warwick.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Watching Single Molecules

UserDavid Klenerman (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Mechanical Atom Manipulation: Towards a Matter Compiler

UserProfessor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Timescales of chemical reactions

UserProf. Mike J Pilling CBE, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Very narrow lasers to measure wide lines: Frequency comb-referenced determination of pressure broadening, narrowing and shifts for remote sensing

UserProfessor Trevor Sears, Brookhaven National Laboratory & Stony Brook University NY.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2011, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

RSC Faraday Lecture

The Molecular Dance in Surface Reactions Followed a-Molecule-at-a-Time by STM

UserProfessor John Polanyi, University of Toronto.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 April 2011, 16:15-17:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs

Inorganic/Theoretical Joint Seminar

UserDr Furio Cora, University College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

UserDavid Madden, Matthew Ashford, Isabella Stocker.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Vehicle exhaust nanoparticles: sources and control.

UserDr Martyn Twigg - previously Chief Scientist of Johnson Matthey.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

What surfactants do at interfaces

UserProfessor Robert Thomas, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Isotopic constraints on atmospheric methane sources

UserDr Rebecca Fisher, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HouseBP Institute, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physical Chemistry

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Physical Chemistry

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

There will be a reception following this lecture in the Todd Hamied.

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Physical Chemistry

"From clays to the cytosol - approaches for characterising soft matter"

UserProfessor Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Reactions of Peroxy Radicals – Key Intermediates in Ozone Formation and Loss

NOTE unusual DAY and LOCATION Joint with Physical Chemistry

UserDr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Redox chemistry of diamond

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserDr Katherine Holt (University College London).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserRachel Pike, Amy Stevens.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserNeil Dickson, Tamsin Phillips.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserAndrew Cassidy, Paul Dunne.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

It's not (all) --rocket-- atmospheric science

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserProfessor John Pyle (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Density functional simulation of a fast-ion conducting glass

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserProfessor David Drabold (Ohio University).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Bionanoscience

UserProfessor Gil Lee – University College Dublin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

How physics can be applied to biological problems

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserDr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Preparation and Properties of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals

GRADUATE SEMINARS

UserShyam Karki.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Finding new radicals and new electronic states in complex environments

UserDr Timothy Schmidt (University of Sydney).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Insights in heterogeneous catalysis mechanisms from DFT calculations

UserDr Philippe Sautet (ENS, Lyon).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Chemical Activity on Graphene Under Stress

UserDr Pedro de Andres (CSIC, Madrid).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Accelerating Chemistry & Biology: Intelligent Microfluidics

UserProfessor Andrew de Mello (Imperial College).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Atmospheric Aerosols: Their Effect on Climate and on Human Health

UserDr Markus Kalberer (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Particle Engineering: Role of Surface Chemistry

UserDr Jerry Heng (Imperial College).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

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