Research highlights

2 gloved hands holding a petri dish with bacteia growing

Improving health and wellbeing using molecular imaging

Innovative molecular imaging by Southampton researchers is shedding light on the interaction of pharmaceutical drugs with the gut microbiome and the repercussions this has on health and wellbeing.
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Research institutes, centres and groups

Andrew Hector

Head of School

Julie Herniman

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Nuno Bimbo

Associate Professor

Robert Raja

Prof of Materials Chemistry & Catalysis

Paul Duckmanton

Professor

Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Graeme Day

Professor of Chemical Modelling

Jonathan Essex

Professor

Iris Nandhakumar

Associate Professor
Electron Diffraction Facility view

Electron diffraction facility

Our electron diffraction facility enables single-crystal structure analysis of crystallites too small for single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments.
Single crystal x-ray diffraction facility

Single crystal X-ray diffraction facility

We provide a structure characterisation service and conduct research in chemical crystallography. We are home to four extremely high powered rotating anode diffractometers, with two copper source and two molybdenum source instruments.
Researchers in the powder x-ray diffraction facility

Powder and materials X-ray diffraction facility

The powder and materials diffraction facilities offer a range of capabilities from simple phase identification through to complex materials analysis.
A man working on a computer in a room with a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance machine in the background

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy facility

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a highly effective analytical tool that enables the assignment of functional groups, atom connectivity, and 3D molecular structures by combining a wide range of 1D and 2D NMR experiments.
A woman researcher sat in front of a computer screen in a Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry laboratory

Chromatography and mass spectrometry facility

We host 11 different mass spectrometry instruments with a range of ionisation techniques, analyser types and chromatography inlets.
An overview of the chemical nanoanalysis scanning electron microscope

Chemical nanoanalysis scanning electron microscope

The Chemical Nanoanalysis Scanning Electron Microscope (CNSEM) facility offers a high resolution field emission SEM, in combination with dual-EDS and correlative Raman spectrometer.