Prof. Dr. Elena Besley

• 1993
  MSc degree in Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
  
  

• 2000
  PhD in Physics and Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
  
  

• 2000
  Royal Society/NATO postdoctoral research fellowship, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
  
  

• 2001 – 2005
  Postdoctoral research appointments in Chemistry at the Universities of Nottingham, Sussex and Cambridge, UK
  
  

• 2005
  Royal Society UK Relocation Fellowship, University of Nottingham, UK
  
  

• 2007
  Visiting Academic Research Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  
  

• 2008 – 2014
  EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship, UK
  
  

• 2011
  Lecturer in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK
  
  

• 2013
  Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, UK
  
  

• 2013 – 2018
  ERC Consolidator grant, EU
  
  

• 2015
  Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK
  
  

• 2020 – 2024
  Wolfson Fellowship, the Royal Society, UK
  
  

• Nanostructuring of the fast ion conductor, lithium nitride. Nature Communications (2020).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17951-6

• Atomic mechanism of metal crystal nucleus formation in a single-walled carbon nanotube. Nature Chemistry (2020).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0538-9

• Ordering, flexibility and frustration in arrays of porphyrin nanorings. Nature Communications 10, 2932 (2019).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11009-y

• Comparison of atomic scale dynamics for the middle and late transition metal nanocatalysts. Nature Communications 9, 3382 (2018).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05831-z

• Supramolecular heterostructures formed by sequential epitaxial deposition of two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded arrays. Nature Chemistry 9, 1191-1197 (2017).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2824

• A partially-interpenetrated metal-organic framework for selective hysteretic sorption of carbon dioxide. Nature Materials 11, 710-716 (2012).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat3343

• Self-assembly of a sulphur-terminated graphene nanoribbon within a single-walled carbon nanotube. Nature Materials 10, 687-692 (2011).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat3082

• Reactions of the inner surface of carbon nanotubes and nanoprotrusion processes imaged at the atomic scale. Nature Chemistry 3, 732-737 (2011).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1115

• Direct transformation of graphene to fullerene. Nature Chemistry 2(6), 450-453 (2010).

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.644

• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Hydrogen (SusHy)

  Principal Investigator: Prof. Gavin Walker (Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham)

  Co-Directors: Prof. Elena Besley and others

  Duration: April 1st 2019 – September 30th 2027

  Scheme: EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training

• Multi-Functional Nano-Carbon Composite Materials Network (MultiComp)

  The Proposer: Dr. Sharali Malik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  UK representative on the Management Committee and Working Group leader: Prof. Elena Besley

  Duration: April 7th 2016 – September 30th 2020

  Scheme: COST: European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research

• Coordination Chemistry for Energy and Our Sustainable Futures (ChemEnSus)

  Principal Investigator: Prof. Martin Schröder, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham

  Co-Investigators: Dr. Elena Bichoutskaia and others

  Duration: June 9th 2011 – June 8th 2016

  Scheme: EPSRC Programme Grant

• External referee for the Research Committee of the City University of Hong Kong

• Member of the UK EPSRC College

• Managing editor of the Journal of Atomic and Molecular Science

• PGCHE, Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Nottingham, UK, 2013

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