Chemistry
Average intake: Eight - nine
Tutors and Lecturers
- Professor Richard Compton, Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry
- Professor Fraser Armstrong, Tutorial Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry
- Dr Angela Russell, Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry
- Dr Devinder Sivia, Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics for the Sciences
Additional Fellows
- Dr Christopher Jones, Junior Research Fellow in Chemistry
- Professor George Fleet, Emeritus Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry
More about Chemistry at St John's
- St John’s has full Tutorial Fellows in each of the three main branches of Chemistry; this ensures that most of the teaching is done in house with benefits of continuity and experience. All three tutors run active research
programs with large groups and h indices to match. - Chemistry undergraduates are intensively taught in College over the first three years of the M.Chem. course (the fourth year being devoted to departmentally based research).
- Over the years our undergraduate chemists have achieved a very high proportion of first class degrees.
- Our Chemistry undergraduates regularly undertake research projects with their tutors during vacations; others successfully obtain work placements in industry.
- St John's is unique amongst Oxford Colleges in having very recently appointed a Fellow - Dr Devinder Sivia - in 'Mathematics for the Sciences' who provides all the first year college teaching in Mathematics for Chemistry building on his unrivalled experience and expertise. Dr Sivia has published successful textbooks at this level (and beyond). He also holds a corresponding position in the University.
- St John's chemists are highly employable – recent graduates usually continue on to further research or enter the professions.
