Dr Simon Duckett

Simon Duckett is director of the University of York centre for hyperpolarisation in magnetic resonance. He initially spent four years as a post doctoral researcher at the University of Rochester, first working for Professor William Jones and then Professor Richard Eisenberg. Since that point his research group have worked to established para-hydrogen as a key tool in the study of reaction mechanisms. He is best known for discovering the signal amplification by reversible exchange effect, SABRE, that is proving to be very important in the development of hyperpolarization methods for use in NMR and MRI. His work with parahydrogen and NMR was been recognised by the Royal Society of Chemistry through their 2008 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Prize and a 2018 Tilden Prize. In 2020 he shared the Gunther Laukien Prize in recognition of his cutting-edge nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) research.