Andy Cooper (chemist) explained

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.

Education

Cooper was educated at the University of Nottingham where he was awarded a PhD for research supervised by Martyn Poliakoff.[2]

Career

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]

Awards and honours

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: liv.ac.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20140914220600/http://www.liv.ac.uk/cooper-group/people/andrew-cooper. 2014-09-14. Professor Andrew Cooper, Cooper Group. University of Liverpool. Anon. 2014.
  2. Web site: Chemistry Tree - Andrew Ian Cooper Details . Academictree.org . 2014-01-21 . 2017-01-21.
  3. Mang. Stephan. Cooper. Andrew I.. Colclough. M. Eamon. Chauhan. Naren. Holmes. Andrew B.. Copolymerization of CO2 and 1,2-Cyclohexene Oxide Using a CO2-Soluble Chromium Porphyrin Catalyst. Macromolecules. 33. 2. 2000. 303–308. 10.1021/ma991162m. 2000MaMol..33..303M .
  4. Web site: Academy of Europe: Cooper Andrew Ian .
  5. Web site: Hughes medallist 2019. Royal Society. 5 October 2019.