Personal Chair: Andrew Mount

Andrew Mount has been made a Personal Chair in Physical Electrochemistry.

Professor Mount gained both his first-class BSc (Honours) in Chemistry and his PhD from Imperial College, London.

He then moved to the University of Oxford, where he was appointed Research Scholar at University College, College Lecturerer at Keble College and Junior Research Fellow at Green College.

He joined Edinburgh as Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in 1992 and was appointed Reader in 2005.

Professor Mount’s research interests are in the development, characterisation and application of novel electrode and spectroscopic sensing and analysis systems, particularly for applications in healthcare and energy.

He is Head of Physical Chemistry and Dean of the Research Excellence Framework in the College of Science and Engineering, as well as being on the Steering Board of the Scottish Sensor Systems Centre (S3C).

He was appointed one of the National Nuclear Laboratory’s first academic associates, is Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Faraday Standing Committee on Conferences and is also a member of the RSC Faraday Division Council.