Dr Richard Douthwaite Further Information

  • EPSRC college member
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • SCI National Materials Committee

Examples of invited lectures

  • Making Light Work Symposium, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cambridge, UK 2010
  • 42nd IUPAC Congress, Glasgow 2009
  • International Carbene Conference, Mexico 2009
  • 2nd EuChemS, Torino, 2008
  • Novel Structural and Functional Materials and Methods for their Characterisation Workshop, Kiev, Ukraine 2006
  • PACIFICHEM Hawaii, USA 2005
  • IV International Razuvaev Lectures, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2005
  • Royal Society of Chemistry Coordination Chemistry Discussion Group, University of Cardiff, UK, 2005.
  • Younger European Chemists Conference. Torino, Italy 2004.

Books

  • Co-editor Special Periodical Reports. Spectroscopic Properties of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds: Materials and Applications

Recent Grants

  • Chiral imidazolium salts for organo- and metal-mediated catalysis, EPSRC, £208,642. 2005-2008.
  • Microwave-induced plasma promoted dielectric heating: metrology and application to the photocatalytic activation of water (in collaboration with Prof Rik Brydson, University of Leeds), EPSRC, £345,974 to York, £264,200 to Leeds. 2007-2010.
  • Photocatalysis with organometallics complexes, SASOL, £40,000. 2008-2011.
  • New macroporous materials for photocatalytic and photonic applications, White Rose Consortium Centre for Low Carbon Futures, £ 51,670. 2010-2013.