Dr. Cristina Afonso
Physical sciences
Physical sciences
Molecular coordination chemistry of the f-block elements with relevance to catalysis and nuclear waste
Design and synthesis of highly reactive f-block complexes that can activate inert small molecules such as carbon oxides, atmospheric nitrogen, and hydrocarbons, and that can provide fundamental information on structure and bonding or the metals at the bottom of the periodic table.
Academia Europaea. 2019 elected to the membership of the Academy
FRS, 2018. Elevated to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, London, UK
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2018. For pioneering research into transuranic organometallic chemistry
Todd-Krebs Lectureship 2018 of the German Chemical Society GDCh. For advances in chemistry
Lord Kelvin Prize, Royal Society of Edinburgh 2017. Scotland’s senior physical sciences research prize
OBE, 2017. Admitted to the Queen’s most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to chemistry and women in STEM, in the Queens’s birthday honours
The Chancellor's Prize for Research 2017, Edinburgh. Awarded by HRH Princess Royal
Seaborg Visiting Professorship 2017. Seaborg Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
E. Gordon Young Lectureship 2017. Chemical Institute of Canada
Ambassador of the Technical University, Munich, Germany
English
1994, 1997 Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in chemistry: BA(Hons) from the University of Oxford, UK, and DPhil. from the University of Sussex, UK
Actinide metallacyclic catalysts for dinitrogen conversion to ammonia and secondary silylamines. P. L. Arnold, T. Ochiai, F. Y. T. Lam, R. P. Kelly, M. L. Seymour, L. Maron, Nature Chem. 2020, 12 (7), 654-659.
Thermal and photochemical reduction and functionalisation chemistry of the uranyl dication. B. E. Cowie, J. M. Purkis, J. Austin, J. B. Love, and P. L. Arnold. Chem. Rev., 2019 119, 10595-673.
Controlled Photocatalytic hydrocarbon oxidation by uranyl complexes. P. L. Arnold, J. M. Purkis, R. Rutkauskaite, D. Kovacs, J. B. Love, and J. Austin. ChemCatChem, 2019 11, 3786-3790.
Selective and catalytic carbon dioxide and heteroallene activation mediated by cerium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. P. L. Arnold, R. W. F. Kerr, C. Weetman, S. R. Docherty, J. Rieb, F. L. Cruickshank, K. Wang, C. Jandl, M. W. McMullon, A. Pothig, F. E. Kuhn, and A. D. Smith. Chem. Sci., 2018 9, 8035-45.
Actinide catalysts for carbon oxygenate transformations. P. L. Arnold, Z. R. Turner, Nature Chem. Rev. 2017, in press. doi:10.1038/s41570-016-0002.
Organometallic neptunium(III) complexes. M. S. Dutkiewicz, J. H. Farnaby, C. Apostolidis, E. Colineau, O. Walter, N. Magnani, M. G. Gardiner, J. B. Love, N. Kaltsoyannis, R. Caciuffo, P. L. Arnold. Nature Chem., 2016 8, 797-802.
Metal–metal bonding in uranium–group 10 complexes. J. A. Hlina, J. R. Pankhurst, N. Kaltsoyannis, P. L. Arnold. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016 138, 3333-45.
'The Infinite Monkey Cage' BBC Radio 4, a comedy science program, 2019. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000937h
'Brainwaves' BBC Radio Scotland, a popular science program, 2018.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09trwf0.
Creator and Executive Producer of 'A Chemical Imbalance' (www.chemicalimbalance.ed.ac.uk); a short book and documentary about women in science
Chair of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, until 2019
CoPI on 'Evidence Base: Growing the Big Grant Club'. Funded by the UK EPSRC funding council, Evidence base has been established to promote and execute a systems based approach to problems of equality, diversity and inclusion in STEM. https://evidencebase.org.uk/
Tweets as @ProfArno on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion matters. Over 3800 genuine followers that include learned societies, international scientific publishers and journalists, parliamentary party leaders and policy makers
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