Participant Details

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First Name
Chris
Last Name
Serpell
Country
UK
Technologies/Techniques Used
Chemical synthesis, Polymer Functionalization
Research Interest
Chemical biology, Polymer science

Personal Info

Bio
Dr. Serpell achieved his DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry with Prof. Paul Beer at the University of Oxford in 2010. He remained there as an EPSRC PhD+ Awardee, before moving to Prof. Hanadi Sleiman’s group at McGill University, Montreal in 2011 on a Tomlinson, and then a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. He returned to Oxford in 2014 to work with Prof. Ben Davis FRS as a Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher within the RADDEL network. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Kent in 2015, Senior Lecturer in 2018, and Reader in 2020. In 2023 he moved to UCL School of Pharmacy as an Associate Professor of Drug Discovery.