Prof. Dr. Alexandra M. Z. Slawin was the first female
professor of chemistry at the University of St Andrews, the third oldest
university in the UK. She has published over 1200 papers. She is a specialist
in small molecule X-ray crystallography and directs a facility containing six
diffractometers. Her early education was at Imperial College where she obtained
her degree. After five years at the University of Loughborough, where she
obtained her PhD, she moved to St Andrews in 1999, becoming a full professor in
2007. She was elected into the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2009. Her
interests are broad, spanning from nanomaterials and organic chemistry to
supramolecular chemistry, with highly cited papers in all these areas. She was
highlighted as a rare woman in the top fifty authors in Angewandte Chemie and
as the fifth largest contributor to the Cambridge Crystallographic database,
the international repository for single crystal data for C-H-containing
molecules, which has over one million entries.
Dr. David B. Cordes joined the University of St Andrews in
2013 and took up a position as an X-ray crystallographer. He earned his PhD in
2006 from the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand). He conducted postdoctoral
work at The University of Alabama in 2007, Imperial College London in 2008, and
the University of St Andrews in 2010, before moving to Texas Tech University in
2012 to run the X-Ray Diffraction Service in the Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry. Dr. Cordes now runs the Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Service
in the School of Chemistry, providing a molecular structure determination
service for crystalline solid-state materials.
Dr. Andreas Stasch is a Reader at the
School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews. He earned his PhD in 2003 from
the University of Göttingen (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Herbert W
Roesky. Dr. Stasch conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Cameron Jones at
Cardiff University (2004–2006), including a stay with Prof. Peter C. Junk at
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) in 2005. He was an ARC Research Fellow
(2007–2012) and ARC Future Fellow (2012–2016) at Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia. Dr. Stasch’s group works in numerous areas of molecular inorganic
and organometallic chemistry, focusing on the main group elements.
