Stephen Liddle#
| Membership Number: | 7104 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/steve.liddle.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9911-8778 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - now Director, National Nuclear User Facility, Centre for Radiochemistry Research, The University of Manchester (TUoM)
- 2015 - now Co-Director, Centre for Radiochemistry Research, TUoM
- 2015 - now Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry, TUoM
- 2013 - 2015 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Royal Society University Research Fellow, Nottingham University
- 2010 - 2013 Associate Professor and Reader and Royal Society University Research Fellow, Nottingham University
- 2007 - 2010 Lecturer, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Nottingham University
- 2000 - 2007 Wilfred Hall JRF and PDRA positions (Edinburgh, Newcastle, and Nottingham Universities)
- 1997 - 2000 PhD Researcher in Inorganic Structural Chemistry, Newcastle University
- 1993 - 1997 BSc(Hons), Chemistry with Applied Chemistry (inc.1 yr placement at ICI Chemicals Wilton), Newcastle University
Fields of Scholarship
- Metal-ligand multiple bonding
- Small molecule activation
- Single-molecule magnetism
- Coordination chemistry
- Catalysis
- Lanthanides and actinides
- Organometallic chemistry
- Metal-metal bonding
- Main group chemistry
- Early transition metals
Honours and Awards
- 2023 GDCh Alexander Todd – Hans Krebs Lectureship Prize
- 2023 President-Elect, European Rare Earth and Actinide Society; Elected Vice-President since 2012; currently moving the society to the UK as a charity trustee
- 2022 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy of Science and Letters
- 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division Horizon Team Prize
- 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize
- 2019 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
- 2019 Finalist of the ACS Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award
- 2019 EPSRC Grant EP/T011289/1: National Nuclear User Facility at the Centre for Radiochemistry Research, PI, £4.42M
- 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize
- 2014 41st International Coordination Chemistry Conference Rising Star Prize
- 2015 EPSRC Established Career Fellowship EP/M027015/1: Uranium-Ligand Multiple Bonds: From Molecules to Materials, PI, £1.45M.
- 2011 Chairman COST Action CM1006 EUFEN
- 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship Award
- 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Radiochemistry Group Bill Newton Prize
- 2011 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2008 Institution of Chemical Engineers Petronas Team Award for Excellence in Education and Training
- 2007 Royal Society University Research Fellowship UF071260: Marrying Non-Traditional Ligands with Uranium Chemistry, PI, £752k
- 2003 Wilfred Hall Junior Research Fellowship: Novel Lanthanide Complexes for Catalytic Applications, PI, £60k
- Back-to-back ERC Awards: Starter Grant 239621: UNCLE: Uranium in Non-Conventional Ligand Environment, PI, €1M, in 2009 and Consolidator Grant 612724: Frontier Non-Aqueous Uranium Chemistry: Structure, Bonding, Reactivity, and Nanomagnetism, PI, €2.12m, in 2014
- Journal outstanding refereeing recognition: Wiley Angewandte Chemie (2011), RSC Chemical Science (2019), ACS Organometallics (2023)
