Tony's science links.
It all started for me at Sheffield University where
I graduated with a B.Sc in chemistry in 1984.
I got my first job in 1985 when I went to work for AEA technology at the
Springfields laboratories near Preston. Here I learned all about powder
diffraction and analysed all sorts of different nuclear and non-nuclear
materials.
In 1990 I got onto the academic "Big
Science" bandwagon where I went to work at Daresbury Laboratory in the synchrotron
radiation department. For my first two years there I was employed by
the chemistry department at Keele University, I
was also a part-time student at Keele graduating with a M.Sc in chemistry in 1992. For the
next three and a half years I was employed at Daresbury by the CCLRC. During my time
at Daresbury I did a lot of work in collaboration with the Earth Sciences
department at Manchester
University.
In 1995 I left Daresbury to study for a PhD in chemistry at the finest university in
the land with Dr. Paul Attfield. My research
involved solid-state inorganic chemistry, my thesis was entitled "Structural
Studies using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and other techniques", I graduated in
1999.
After my PhD I went to the south of France for seven
months to work at the Universite
Montpellier II. Whilst I was there I did a postdoc involving
structure determination work on Li-ion battery materials, got a nice tan on the
beach and spoke some very bad French.
After my return from France I spent a pretty awful
year working at the second
best university as a postdoc in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory with Dr. Peter Battle on giant magnetoresitance
materials.
Now I am working at Manchester in a much better postdoc in the Earth Sciences
department. I work for Prof. Richard Pattrick and Prof. David Vaughan using synchrotron radiation
to study the structural evolution of transition metal sulphide mineral systems,
just like old times! Here is my Earth Sciences home page.
Here
is a list of my publications.
Here
are some useful scientific links.
Loads of crystallographic software can be found here
at the CCP14 site.
I'm a member of the British
Crystallographic Association and the Royal Society of Chemistry. I have had a
few papers published by the International Union of Crystallography.
The Royal Society of Chemistry has a great periodic table page. My alma mater has also got
another great periodic
table page.
The background
picture is of the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev,
inventor of the periodic table.
I
have done experiments using the ISIS spallation neutron source at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
The new DIAMOND
synchrotron.
I've
even been to Grenoble in France to do some
neutron
and synchrotron experiments.
