Management Board Members

Professor Neil McKweon

Neil McKeown is the Crawford Tercentenary Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (since 1 January 2014). He has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers on various aspects of organic materials chemistry, including two reports in the high impact journal Science, and is named as inventor on eight patents. His h-index is 46. His expertise is in the synthesis of organic materials with a focus on the preparation of membrane-forming Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs), of which he is co-inventor (with Budd) and for which he was awarded the 2008 Beilby Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is PI on a current EPSRC grant with the objective of preparing CO2-selective polymer membranes for carbon capture (EP/K008102/1) and is a partner on an EU FP7 consortium grant dealing with mixed matrix membranes (M4CO4). He has supervised 33 PhD students to completion and currently supervises a group of eight PhD students and three PDRAs.

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