Prof. Robert E Mulvey
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Strathclyde
Robert was born in Glasgow, Scotland and obtained both his BSc and PhD from the University of Strathclyde, where he has held a Professorship since 1995 and currently holds the 1919 Chair of Inorganic Chemistry. His research has been recognised through many awards including a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (2017), a Peking University-Eli Lilly Lectureship (2015), the GDCh Arfvedson Schlenk Prize (2013), the RSC Main Group Chemistry award (2001) and Meldola Medal and Prize (1988), and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit (2009) and Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship awards (2004), and was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2001). His research centres on developing the special synergistic chemistry of polar organometallic compounds with emphasis on alkali metal mediation in synthesis and catalysis. He has published more than 300 research papers. He has been a member of the ACS since 2001.