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Newcastle University

Chemistry Photochemistry Physical Chemistry Materials Chemistry Organic Chemistry Photonics

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5.05/4/2026

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Professor Andrew Benniston is Professor of Photonic Energy Sciences and Head of the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University. He graduated from the University of Warwick in 1984 with a first-class honours degree in chemistry and completed his PhD at the same university under Professor Peter Moore, focusing on the preparation and coordination chemistry of azamacrocycles. He then held a one-year Royal Society postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Jean-Pierre Sauvage's group in Strasbourg, France, followed by several years as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Tony Harriman at the Center for Fast Kinetics Research in Austin, Texas. From 1994 to 2001, he served as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. In 2001, Benniston joined the Department of Chemistry at Newcastle University, where he co-founded the Molecular Photonics Laboratory, and was promoted to professor in 2011.