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Award of Ramsay Fellowships

We are interested in news of all our Ramsay Fellows, both former and current, and we would be delighted to hear from you with details of where you are now, the research you are currently undertaking or have undertaken previously, and any honours or distinctions you may have achieved. Please contact the Trust or complete a 'Who's Who' of Ramsay Fellows form. 

The 2012 Ramsay Memorial Fellowships have been awarded to the following:

• Dr Alistair Boyer, who previously studied for a PhD at the University of Cambridge, will be undertaking research to develop novel catalysts and investigate their applications to the creation of new and interesting organic molecules. Dr Boyer's Fellowship will be based in and co-sponsored by the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
• Dr Andreas Kafizas, who previously studied for a PhD at UCL, will be undertaking research to study the development of multilayer photoelectrode materials. Dr Kafizas’ Fellowship will be based in and co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London.
• Dr Alberto Roldan, who previously studied for his PhD at the University Rovira I Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), will be undertaking computational studies of the catalytic formation of ammonia, and his Fellowship will be based in the Department of Chemistry at UCL and co-sponsored by the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

The 2011 Ramsay Memorial Fellowships have been awarded to the following:

• Dr Charles Dunnill - based in and co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry at UCL. Dr Dunnill will be undertaking research to investigate and evaluate the underpinning science behind the application of large scale electrolysis of sea water for hydrogen production.
• Dr Jingping Hu - based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and is co-sponsored by UCL and the University of Oxford. Dr Hu will be undertaking research to study protein transitions by developing new experimental designs to integrate spectroscopic structural and electrochemical studies of these systems. 
• Dr David Scanlon - based in and co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry at UCL. Dr Scanlon will be undertaking research using state-of-the-art quantum chemistry methods to predict the stability and properties of novel semiconductor materials for renewable energy applications.

In 2010, Ramsay Memorial Fellowships were awarded to the following:

• Dr Matthew Habgood - based in and co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry at UCL, from 1 October 2010. The title of his research project is 'Inclusion of polarization effects in theoretical models of intermolecular forces' and he is being mentored by Professor Sally Price.
• Dr Bao Nguyen - based in and co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, from 1 October 2010. The title of his research project is 'Activation of carbon dioxide by amines' and he is being mentored by Dr Chris Braddock.
• Dr Christopher Rennick - based in and co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, from 1 January 2011. The title of his research project is 'Studies of the reactivity of ultracold molecules with ions in an ion trap', and he is being mentored by Professor Timothy Softley.

Honorary Japanese Ramsay Fellowship 

Dr Kiminori Maeda has been awarded an Honorary Japanese Ramsay Fellowship for one year with effect from 1 October 2011. In collaboration with the Timmel, Mackenzie and Hore groups at the University of Oxford, Dr Maeda plays a pivotal role in the DARPA-funded project "Quantum Effects in Magnetoreception" which aims to determine whether birds use magnetically sensitive photochemical reactions to detect the direction of the Earth's magnetic field as a navigational aid.