Dr Simon Clarke

Dr Clarke is a Fellow, Tutor and University Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. He was born and educated in Hertfordshire. He came to Oxford in 1987 to read Chemistry at St John's College, and completed his D Phil on the magnetic properties of solids in 1994 as a Graduate Scholar of St Hugh's College. He then received a Royal Society NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship and spent two years at Cornell University in the group of Professor F J DiSalvo. In 1997 he returned to the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford as a Lloyd's of London Tercentenary Foundation Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh's College. He moved to the University of Exeter as a University Lecturer in 1998 and was elected a Fellow of Exeter College in 2000. Dr Clarke's research in solid state chemistry focuses on the synthesis of a range of new solids and correlation of their electronic and magnetic properties with their structures.