Fraser Armstrong
Fraser Armstrong is a Professor of Chemistry and Emeritus Fellow of St John’s College, in Oxford. He obtained his PhD at the University of Leeds with Geoff Sykes then carried out postdoctoral research with Peter Kroneck (Konstanz), Ralph Wilkins (New Mexico), Helmut Beinert (Madison) and Allen Hill (Oxford). In 1983 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which he held in Oxford until 1989 when he joined the Chemistry Faculty at the University of California, Irvine. He moved to his present position in Oxford in 1993. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society which is the national academy of sciences of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. His interests are in biological redox chemistry and its application and inspiration for future energy technologies. He has developed new applications of dynamic electrochemical techniques for studying complex electron transfer and catalytic reactions in proteins, including the mechanisms and exploitation of biological hydrogen, oxygen and carbon cycling. These efforts are providing insight into the design of optimal electrocatalysts for the future, both in detail and horizon (almost perfect catalysts do exist). He is currently developing a technology (the e-Leaf) for energizing and exploiting multi-enzyme cascade catalysis under conditions of energized nanoconfinement. He coauthors an internationally popular textbook on Inorganic Chemistry.
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