Duncan Bruce#

• 2005 Professor of Materials Chemistry, University of York
• 2015 - 2021 Head of Department of Chemistry, University of York
• 2009 - 2011 Chair: British Liquid Crystal Society
• 2006 - 2009 President: Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Division
• 1997 - 2002 Head of Department of Chemistry, University of Exeter
• 1995 - 2005 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Exeter
• 1994 - 1995 Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Sheffield
• 1994 - 1995 Co–Director; Sheffield Centre for Molecular Materials
• 1991 - 1994 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Sheffield
• 1986 - 1991 Warren Research Fellow of the Royal Society (in Sheffield)

• Materials chemistry
• Metallosurfactants
• Liquid crystals
• Metallomesogens
• Halogen-bonded materials
• Ionic liquids
• Organometallic and coordination chemistry

• 2023 International Cooperation Prize of the Petrochemical Foundation of China (for collaborative with Professor Yafei Wang, Chanzhou University)
• 2022 Gold Medal Award of the Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha, India (for 'Exceptional Academic Achievement')
• 2014 Peter Day Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (mid-career award for 'numerous pioneering contributions in soft materials')
• 2010 2010 Tilden Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry ('in recognition of his mastery of synthetic and organisational principles for the creation of materials with collective properties')
• 1997 1996 Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry ('for innovative multi-disciplinary approach to the synthesis and characterisation of metal-containing liquid crystals with novel properties')
• 1994/95 Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship of the Dalton Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 1991 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry – CChem FRSC
• 1990 First British Liquid Crystal Society Young Scientist Award

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