Chemistry RESEARCH
The School of Chemistry has strengths in
synthesis,
natural product synthesis,
structure determination,
theoretical and computational chemistry,
analytical chemistry,
physical chemistry,
inorganic chemistry,
organic chemistry,
natural products chemistry and
marine biodiscovery,
medicinal chemistry and
materials chemistry. In recent years the Schools output in terms of peer reviewed publications has grown significantly (
see links below). The School has graduated ~350 PhD students since 1970. More than 60% of these graduates are employed in Irish Industry with the remainder working in the public sector or in education. A number have successful careers outside Ireland. Research activity within the School of Chemistry involves over 70 postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the following research areas:
Programmes available
Structured PhD in Chemistry (full-time). This normally involves working under supervision of one of the academic staff of the School. For a list of academic staff and short summary of their research areas along with information concerning our structured PhD programme click
here.
Entry requirements
To be eligible to enter on a programme of study and research for the degree of PhD you must have reached at minimum a high honours standard at the examination for the primary degree or presented such evidence as will satisfy the Head of School and the College of your fitness.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
All peer reviewed journal publications emanating from the School of Chemistry can be found by clicking on the relevant year below. For access to these papers please access the personal webpage of the corresponding author (
in bold) where web links are provided.