Robert Burch#
| Membership Number: | 3490 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofChemistryandChemicalEngineering/Staff/AcademicStaffpersonalpages/ProfessorRobbieBurchOBE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Research Professor, the Queen's University of Belfast
- 2003 -2009 Head of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the Queen's University Belfast
- 2000 - 2003 Founder and First Director of CenTACat (Centre for the Theory and Application of Catalysis) in Queen's University Belfast
- 1999 - 2003 Professor of Physical Chemistry and Head of Research, School of Chemistry, the Queen's University Belfast
- 1990 - 1999 Director of the Catalysis Research Centre and Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, University of Reading, England
- 1987 - 1990 Reader in Chemistry, University of Reading, England
- 1970 - 1987 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Reading, England
Fields of Scholarship
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Gas phase reactions
- Mechanistic investigations
- Development of new experimental methodologies for investigating the mechanisms of fast reactions
- Application of new techniques to investigate important industrial catalysts under realistic conditions
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Awarded the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) for services to science by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
- 2007 Awarded the Francois Gault Lectureship of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies
- 2007 Invited Keynote lecturer at Europacat, Oulu, Finland
- 2006 Elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy
- 2005 Appointed Honorary Professor, East China University of Science and Technology
- 2004 Plenary lecturer at 12th International Conference on Catalysis, Paris, France
- 2003 Awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Heterogeneous Catalysis
- 2003 Awarded Institute of Chemical Engineers Innovation Award for Applied Catalysis
- 1991 Awarded Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Research on Hydrocarbon Oxidation Chemistry.
- 1988 Awarded D.Sc. by Queen's University Belfast
