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Professor Long is passionate about making new molecules and the design and synthesis of new chemical bonds or combinations of elements – all of which is central to his research work. Apart from the thrill of discovering new compounds, he is always looking for their applications. This could be as an industrial catalyst, a conducting or switchable material or as a biomedical imaging probe. In the latter, Professor Long as his team are developing less toxic MRI contrast agents, radiochemical probes that can provide better and earlier disease diagnosis and metal-containing nanomaterials that can target cancerous tumours.

Biography

Professor Nick Long holds the Sir Edward Frankland BP Endowed Chair in Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, and has wide-ranging research experience in applied synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry. His research interests focus on transition metal and lanthanide chemistry for the synthesis of functional molecules, homogeneous catalysts and in recent years, probe design and novel methodologies for biomedical imaging. Professor Long has published 210 papers, including several high impact review articles and textbooks – 'Metallocenes' and 'The Chemistry of Molecular Imaging', holds several patents and has successfully graduated 48 PhD students from his research group.

Nick was awarded the 2006 ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø Prize in Organometallic Chemistry, was a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow 2009/10 and in 2011, became a Fellow of the ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø of Chemistry and was appointed to the Frankland Chair. In 2018, Nick was awarded a ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø Wolfson Research Merit grant (2018–2022). He is also Deputy Director of the successful EPSRC King’s/Imperial Centre for Doctoral Training in Smart Medical Imaging (2013–2021, and renewed 2019–2027).