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Professor Matthew Davidson

Email: M.G.Davidson@bath.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1225 386 443

Matthew Davidson is Whorrod Professor of Sustainable Chemical Technologies, Executive Director of the University of Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change, Executive Director of the Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies and Director of the CDT in Sustainable Chemical Technologies: A Systems Approach. His research focuses on the application of molecular chemistry and catalysis to sustainable chemical processes such as manufacture of renewable fuels, chemicals and plastics.

He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Wales, Swansea and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Following a Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge, he held Lectureships in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and Durham University before being appointed to a Chair of Chemistry at Bath in 1999. Much of his work involves close collaboration with industry and he has held a Royal Society Industry Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a previous recipient of its Harrison Memorial Prize.

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