Russell Morris
University of St Andrews
Biography
Russell Morris was born and raised in north Wales, and completed his education at the University of Oxford where he gained B.A. and D. Phil degrees. He is currently Bishop Wardlaw Professor of 浪花直播 at the University of St Andrews.
His research interests lie in the synthesis, characterisation and application of porous and layered materials including zeolites and metal-organic frameworks. He developed ionothermal synthesis 鈥� the use of ionic liquids as reactive media for the preparation of solids. This has had an impact across a wide range of chemistry. His recent work on developing the ADOR approach to the preparation of zeolites offers routes to exciting materials that would not be possible using standard techniques. Morris also pioneered the use of porous materials for the storage and delivery of biologically active gases for medical applications and there are several start-up companies developing his technology to market.
He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). He is the recipient of several awards including the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, The Baron Axel Cronstedt Prize from the European Federation of Zeolite Associations (2017) and the 浪花直播 Tilden Medal and Prize (2019). In 2020 he will be Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
RSC affiliations
Chair, Dalton Transactions