Professor Mark Ormerod

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Professor of Clean Technology and Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Keele University

Professor Ormerod was appointed as a Lecturer in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at Keele in 1992, having previously held the Oppenheimer Research Fellowship and a College Research Fellowship at Cambridge University for three years. In 1997 he was awarded a five year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship and was promoted to Professor. He was appointed Head of the newly formed School of Physical and Geographical Sciences in August 2005. 

Professor Ormerod obtained his first degree in Natural Sciences (specialising in Chemistry in the final year) from Cambridge University in 1986, and my PhD from the same institution in 1989, in the area of surface chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis.