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Dr Charlotte Willans

Reader in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry

Overview

Dr Charlotte Willans is a Reader in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry. Research within the group involves the exploration of organometallic complexes in both catalytic and biomedicinal applications.

Mechanistic understanding of processes using both precious- and base-metal systems aids in the development of ligand architectures for overall enhanced efficacy.

New approaches for the synthesis of metal species using electrochemistry enables more sustainable routes towards these complexes, with translation of the methodology into flow technology enabling a high-throughput approach to their development.

Biography

Dr Charlotte Willans obtained her MChem degree in 2002 from the University of York, conducting a research project at DSM (Netherlands) with Professors Johannes de Vries and André de Vries on palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions.

She completed her PhD in 2006 at the University of York working with Professor Francesca Kerton and Professor Jason Lynam on lanthanide catalysis and organophosphorus cages.

She completed a postdoctoral position with Professor Jonathan Steed in Durham (2006-2009), working on MOFs and metal-N- heterocyclic carbenes, in collaboration with Professor Len Barbour in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Charlotte was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship which she took to Leeds in 2009. She was awarded a Leeds University Research Fellowship in 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. In 2023 Charlotte moved to the University of York where she is a Reader in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry.