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Deborah A. Longbottom is a Teaching Fellow at Homerton College and in the Department of Chemistry, and a Teaching By-Fellow of Churchill College. She was previously a Senior Research Associate in the group of Professor Steven V. Ley, which followed post-doctoral studies at The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California and experience in the pharmaceutical industry. In College, Deborah directs the studies of all students who choose to take Chemistry as their main subject from second year onwards and is also Pastoral Tutor to around 60 undergraduate students, both of which she finds very rewarding. She is also an elected member of the College Council, at what is a very exciting and changing time for Homerton. Through her Departmental work, she lectures to third and final year students on Organic Chemistry and is involved in several outreach projects, including the ‘Salters’ Chemistry Festival’, ‘Headstart’ and ‘Goldsmiths’ courses, as well as being part of the organisation team for ‘The International Chemistry Olympiad 2009’. Her research interests encompass both natural product synthesis and method development and most recently, a fruitful research collaboration with the O’Reilly group at Warwick University has led to interesting investigations on the synthesis and utility of amino-acid functionalised polymers formed by RAFT polymerisation. Further explorations in this area are the focus of current research. Click here for a list of selected publications. |
