Dr. Martin Grossel

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Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 3153 | Internal: 23153
Email: mcg1@soton.ac.uk

Biography

Martin Grossel was an undergraduate at King’s College, London and graduated with a first class honours degree in 1970. He remained at King’s to read for a PhD in physical organic chemistry under the supervision of Professor M. J. Perkins. In 1973 he was appointed to a Departmental Assistantship in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford coupled with a Teaching Lectureship at Christ Church. He joined the research group of Dr G. H. Whitham. In 1975 he was awarded an ICI Fellowship in the Dyson Perrins Lab to work on aspects of alicyclic chemistry. At the same time he was elected to a Research Lectureship (Junior Research Fellowship) at Christ Church.

In 1979 he was appointed Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Bedford College, University of London (which subsequently became Royal Holloway and Bedford New College) and in 1991 moved to Southampton where he is now Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. Since 1979 he has continued to hold a Lectureship at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1993 he was elected to a College Studentship (= Fellowship).

His current interests include applications of supramolecular chemistry to materials science, particularly (i) the behaviour of organic molecules in the solid state; (ii) the use of metal complexes to construct functional supramolecular assemblies and (iii) novel applications of organic polymers for medical and optoelectronics applications. He has a number of successful national and international collaborations, working with Dr P.G. R. Smith, Dr R.J. Curry (now at University of Surrey) in the Physics Department and Optoelectronics Research Centre in Southampton University, and continues to collaborate with Prof. D. B Hibbert (Chemistry School, University of New South Wales, Australia), and Prof. A. K. Cheetham (Materials Department, University of Cambridge). He is also currently involved in collaboration with Prof. M. Levitt (School of Chemistry, Southampton) and Prof K. Komatsu (Kyoto, Japan) and others funded by a Basic Technology Grant which involves synthesising a range of fullerene derivatives.

Research Keywords

Supramolecular chemistry, organic molecular electronics, crystal engineering, optoelectronics, polymeric delivery systems