Russell Morris#
| Membership Number: | 4470 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/russell-edward-morris(62d8ade6-032e-40cd-bff9-c6126320ffec).html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Professor of Chemistry, Dept. of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and Director of the Charles University Centre for Advanced Materials (CUCAM)
- 2016 - present Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
- 2013 - present EPSRC Established Career (Senior) Fellow
- 2011 - present Associate Editor, Dalton Transactions
- 2011 - 2015 Royal Society Industry Fellow
- 2000 - 2016 Professor of Structural and Materials Chemistry, University of St Andrews, School of Chemistry
- 1998 - 2005 Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews
- 1995 - 1998 Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews
Fields of Scholarship
- Synthesis of zeolites
- Synthesis of metal-organic frameworks
- Synthesis using ionic liquids (ionothermal synthesis)
- Synthesis of Quantum Spin Liquids and other magnetic materials
- Gas storage applications in medicine
- Antibacterial applications in medicine
- Advanced Characterisation using X-ray diffraction, solid-state NMR and PDF techniques
Honours and Awards
- Fellowships of International and National Academies
- 2016 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) - The Royal Society is the scientific academy for the UK
- 2012 Elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) - The LSW is the National Academy of Wales
- 2008 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) - The RSE is the National Academy of Scotland
- International Awards
- 2009 National Science Foundation (USA) ADVANCE Distinguished Lecturer
- 2007 GEMI award (Germany)
- UK Awards
- 2016 Emerging Technologies Award - Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Peter Day Award
- 2013 EPSRC Established Career (Senior) Fellowship
- 2012 Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation
- 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award
- 2011 Royal Society Industry Fellow Award
- 2009 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- 2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize (Inorganic Chemistry)
- 2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Barrer Award (Porous Solids)
- 2002 Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Persons Award for Communicating Science
- 2002 Guinness/UDV Award for innovation in anti-counterfeiting
