Andrew Ian Cooper#
| Membership Number: | 4582 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/cooper-group |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1988 - B.Sc, University of Nottingham (First Class)
- 1991 - Ph.D., University of Nottingham, supervised by Prof. Sir M. Poliakoff FRS
- 1995 - 1851 Research Fellow, University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, with Prof. J. M. DeSimone
- 1997 - Ramsay Memorial Fellow, University of Cambridge, with Prof. A. B. Holmes AC PresAA FRS FTSE
- 1999 - Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
- 2003 - Personal Chair, University of Liverpool
- 2005 - Director, Centre for Materials Discovery, University of Liverpool
- 2009 - Head of School of Physical Sciences, University of Liverpool
- 2012 - Director, Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool
- 2016 - Director, Leverhulme Research Centre for Function Materials Design, University of Liverpool
Fields of Scholarship
- Polymers
- Supramolecular chemistry
- Energy materials
- Porous materials
- Photochemical water splitting
- Porous organic cages
- High throughput methodology
- Computationally-led materials design
Honours and Awards
- 2016 1000 Talents Foreign Expert, Hauzhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
- 2015 Leverhulme Research Centre for Function Materials Design (£10 M over 10 years)
- 2015 Consultant Professor, Hauzhong University of Science & Technology, China
- 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2014 Doolittle Award. Awarded by the PMSE section, American Chemical Society
- 2014 Tilden Prize. Awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2012 Materials Innovation Factory funding, £68 M total
- 2012 ERC Advanced Grant (Robust Organic Tectonics, RobOT)
- 2010 Macrogroup UK Medal for Contribution to UK Polymer Science. Awarded by the RSC MacroGroup UK
- 2009 Corday-Morgan Prize. Awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2009 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2007 McBain Medal. Awarded by the SCI / RSC Polymer Colloids Group
- 2005 RSC Industrially Sponsored Award in Environmentally Friendly Polymers
- 2002 Macro Group Young Researchers Award. Awarded by the RSC Macro Group UK
- 1999 Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Awarded by The Royal Society
- 1997 Ramsay Memorial Research Fellowship. Awarded by The Ramsay Memorial Trustees
- 1995 1851 Research Fellowship. Awarded by The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
- 1995 NATO Research Fellowship. Awarded by The Royal Society
