Professor John Dyke

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Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 3590 | Internal: 23590
Email: jmdyke@soton.ac.uk

Biography

John Dyke was an undergraduate at University College Wales Cardiff, and graduated with a first class honours degree in 1967. He won the Isaac Roberts Award for the best science student in the University of Wales in 1966 and 1967.

He studied for a PhD under the supervision of Dr Noel Hush in Bristol University and completed the PhD in 1971. The topic of this research was the study of electron transfer reactions with spectroscopic methods. He then worked as a research chemist for Ciba-Geigy working on the development of a new colour process and film.

In 1973 he was appointed as a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Neville Jonathan at Southampton University. In 1977 he was appointed as a lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Southampton and in 1988 he was appointed to a Chair in Physical Chemistry.

He is an expert on the electronic structure and reactivity of reactive intermediates in the gas-phase. He is a visiting Professor at Hong Kong and Herbei Universities. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and a member of the project assessment panel at the Elettra synchrotron (Trieste). He is Chairman and Principal Investigator of the EPSRC National Service in Computational Chemistry.

Research Keywords

Photoionization, Reactive Intermediates, Molecular Electronic Structure, Quantum Chemistry, Gas-Phase Spectroscopy