Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

Email: m.d.ward@warwick.ac.uk 

Web: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/ward/

Biography

Mike Ward did his BA at Cambridge, and remained there for his PhD (1986-1989) with Ed Constable, studying some of the first examples of helicate complexes of transition-metal ions with polydentate ligands.  After a post-doctoral year with Sauvage in Strasbourg, he started his independent academic career as a lecturer at Bristol in 1990.  He was promoted to Reader in 1998 and to a Chair in 2001, and then moved to Sheffield in 2003.  After 14 years there he recently moved to the University of Warwick where he is currently Head of Department.  Mike's interests are all based around the coordination and supramolecular chemistry of transition metal and lanthanide complexes.  He was awarded the RSC Supramolecular Chemistry prize in 2016 for his work.