Our second speaker on 27th June will be Dr Claire McMullin, giving a short overview of the Structure of the Week talk format, “The History of SotW (Structure of the Week)”
Claire completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (UK) in July 2011 with Prof. Guy Orpen and Dr Natalie Fey, in the Structural Chemistry group that included Dr Chris Adams. Her research included computational modelling and developing novel chiral measures to quantify chirality in organometallic asymmetric catalysis (in collaboration with the CCDC), as well as solving a variety of crystal structures from research groups at the University of Bristol.
After her time in Bristol, Claire spent a year in America as a Post-Doc at the University of North Texas working with Prof. Tom Cundari on late transition metal catalysis. Followed by a 3-year Post-Doc with Prof. Stuart A. Macgregor at Heriot-Watt University working on the mechanism for C-H activation and functionalisation of neutral substrates with Rh(III) and Ru(II) catalysts.
In 2015, Claire joined the University of Bath as a Computational Chemistry Teaching Fellow. In 2022, Claire translated to a Lecturer (Teaching and Research) contract in Inorganic Computational Chemistry, and in 2024 was promoted to Senior Lecturer.