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Michael W. Anderson was born in
Wimbledon, UK in 1960. Following his undergraduate studies in Chemical
Physics at Edinburgh University he joined the group of John M. Thomas
in Cambridge in 1981. His PhD thesis was entitled "Dealuminated
Zeolites" and concentrated on the removal of aluminium from zeolites
using tetrachlorosilane. This was followed by three post-doctoral
appointments: University of Houston with Larry Kevan working on pulsed
EPR measurements of transition metals in zeolites; University of
Connecticut with Steve Suib working on catalyst poisoning; University
of Cambridge with Jacek Klinowski where he developed in situ NMR
methods for monitoring catalytic events in zeolites. He was appointed
Lecturer in Chemistry at UMIST in 1990 and promoted to Professor of
Materials Chemistry in 1998 and is currently Director of the Centre for
Nanoporous Materials. He was recently Chairman of the British Zeolite
Association and editor of Current Opinion in Solid State &
Materials Science: Special Issue on Catalysis and Porous Solids. In
1996 he spent a sabbatical year at Intevep and the Materials Research
Laboratory at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He
received the Royal Society of Chemistry Barrer Award in 1993 for
distinguished work on zeolites. His research interests which are
reported in some 160 papers include: experimental and theoretical NMR
studies of heterogeneous microporous catalysts; structural studies of
mesoporous materials; atomic force microscopy and electron microscopy
studies of crystallisation mechanisms; synthesis and applications of
novel microporous materials. He was the last Head of Chemistry
Department at UMIST before the merger to form the new University of
Manchester. He is now Head of Physical Chemistry within the new School
of Chemistry.
A keen walker and camper Mike also enjoys playing cello and is
currently learning to play the piano.
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