Academic Staff
Professor Simon Duckett
Personal details
e-mail: sbd1@york.ac.uk
University Education:
Simon was awarded a DPhil from the University of York in 1990 and undertook postdoctoral work with Prof. W. D. Jones and Prof. R. Eisenberg at the University of Rochester between 1990 and 1993. In 1993 he returned to the University of York as a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and was promoted to Reader in 2001. He has authored over 30 publications in the field of parahydrogen research.
Research interests:
- The development of parahydrogen induced polarisation methods to study chemical reactions.
- Exploiting molecular symmetry in NMR.
- Using NMR to probe dynamic behaviour and to provide direct evidence for catalytic activity.
- Using photochemistry and NMR to study reactivity.
- Using hyperpolarisation methods to sensitise biological substrates and the magnetic resonance imaging experiment.
- Using Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation to sensitise a range of substrates for use in both NMR and MRI experiments.
- Employing binuclear complexes in catalysis.
Further details on the York Chemistry Department Website.