Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
Andy Cooper | |
Birth Name: | Andrew Ian Cooper |
Fields: | Materials chemistry |
Alma Mater: | University of Nottingham |
Doctoral Advisor: | Martyn Poliakoff[1] |
Andrew Ian Cooper is a British chemist who is a professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool.
Cooper was educated at the University of Nottingham where he was awarded a PhD for research supervised by Martyn Poliakoff.[2]
After his PhD, Cooper held a number of postdoctoral research positions. He held an 1851 Research Fellowship and a Royal Society NATO Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he worked with Joseph DeSimone. He then held a Ramsay Memorial Research Fellowship at the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge, working with Andrew Bruce Holmes.[3] He moved to the University of Liverpool in 1999 where he has worked ever since.[1]
Cooper was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His nomination reads:
Cooper was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2017.[4]