Duncan Bruce - Curriculum Vitae#

Education (University of Liverpool)

• 2000 DSc
  
• 1985 PhD 'Phosphine Complexes of Platinum and Rhodium in the Photocatalytic Decomposition of Water'. Supervisor: D.J. Cole-Hamilton
• 1981 BSc(Hons) 1st Class

Professional Career

• 2005 - Professor of Materials Chemistry, University of York
• 2015 - 2021 Head of Department, Department of Chemistry, University of York
• 1997 - 2002 Head of School of Chemistry, University of Exeter
• 1995 - 2005 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Exeter
• 1994 - 1995 Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Sheffield
• 1994 - 1995 Co–Director; Sheffield Centre for Molecular Materials
• 1991 - 1994 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Sheffield
• 1986 - 1991 Warren Research Fellow of the Royal Society (in Sheffield)
• 1984 - 1986 Temporary Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Sheffield

Visiting Positions

• 2013 Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
• 2012 University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2010 National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
• 2003 Foundation Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, Australia.
• 1997 Ecole Européenne des Hautes Etudes des Industries Chimiques de Strasbourg.
• 1996 Visiting Lecturer, Universita di Messina, Italy.
• 1993 Visiting Researcher at the Government Industrial Research Institute of Osaka, Osaka, Japan.
• 1991 Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
• 1991 CNPq Visiting Fellow at The University of São Pãolo at São Carlos, Brazil.

Publications

In addition to publishing more than 330 research papers and reviews, Bruce co-edited (with Dermot O'Hare, University of Oxford) two editions (1992 & 1996) of the very successful monograph Inorganic Materials. Then also with Richard Walton (University of Warwick) they launched the Wiley Inorganic Materials Series co-editing eight volumes between 2000 and 2014, before the Series moved to be published by the Royal Society of Chemistry with whom a further seventeen volumes have been published since 2018, now also with Libby Gibson (Newcastle University) as a co-editor.

Research Group

43 Postdoctoral Fellows; 46 PhD students (48% female). 29 have academic positions; 14 full professors.

Lectures

111 plenary/invited conference lectures; 59 UK and 89 international (46 Europe) seminars

Professional Activities and Service

• 2019 - 2023 Chair, Board of Trustees, RSC Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
• 2017 - 2021 Chair, RSC Awards Working Group.
• 2013 - 2015 Chair, RSC Audit Committee (by virtue of membership of RSC Council).
• 2015 Co-chair: 12th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC12)
• 2011 - 2015 Elected Member of the Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• 2009 - 2011 Chair: British Liquid Crystal Society
• 2006 - 2009 President: RSC Materials Chemistry Division
• 2002 Executive Secretary: International Liquid Crystal Conference, Edinburgh
• 1997 Chair: 3rd International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC3)
• 1995 - 2001 Secretary: British Liquid Crystal Society
• 1991 - 1999 Founding Member: RSC Materials Chemistry Forum