Personal Chair: Euan Brechin

Euan Brechin has been made a Personal Chair in Coordination Chemistry.

Dr Brechin was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1972.

He completed both his BSc (1994) and PhD (1997) degrees at the University of Edinburgh, the latter under the supervision of Professor Richard Winpenny.

After postdoctoral work with Professor George Christou at Indiana University in the USA he was awarded a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Foundation Fellowship at the University of Manchester.

In 2003 he was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Advanced Fellowship at the same institution, before moving to the University of Edinburgh in September 2004.

His research interests lie in the fields of synthetic coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism.

He has been the recipient of the 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize, the 2010 University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Award and the 2009/10 Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship.