Dr Christopher Serpell

• Lecturer in Chemistry School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent
• Email: C.J.Serpell@kent.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 1227 816 286

Chris completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2005 with a first class MChem after a final year project with Prof. Paul Beer. After a year teaching physical and analytical chemistry at the University of Brighton, he returned to Paul Beer’s group for DPhil studies (co-funded and supervised by Johnson Matthey) which encompassed anion coordination, halogen bonding, crystallography, and metal nanoparticles. Chris was a finalist in the Reaxys PhD Prize, and was awarded EPSRC PhD+ funding for extension projects. In 2011 he moved to McGill University in Montreal as a Tomlinson, and then Banting Fellow in Prof. Hanadi Sleiman’s group, and worked at the interface of DNA, peptide, and polymer nanotechnologies. Chris returned to the UK in 2014, taking up a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher Fellowship in Prof. Ben Davis’s group at Oxford as part of an Innovative Training Network developing the use of filled carbon nanotubes in medicine and biology. Chris was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Kent in July 2015 and is a member of the Functional Materials Group at the School of Physical Sciences