Dr Bruce Alexander

Bruce Alexander BSc PhD MRSC CChem
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry

Office: Nelson 204
Email: b.alexander@gre.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 8331 8209
Fax: +44 (0)20 8331 9805

Areas of Expertise

Bruce started his research career studying electro-catalysts adsorbed on surfaces for fuel cells using a combination of Raman spectroscopy and electrochemistry. He has been working at the interface of physical and inorganic chemistry ever since. Bruce has gone on to develop expertise in the development of semiconductor materials for renewable energy technologies, such as solar hydrogen production, and the spectroscopic analysis of surfaces and thin films.

He maintains an active interest in computational chemistry, crucially allied to experimental data as a tool to understand structure and bonding in a range of systems and currently maintains the computational chemistry suite in the School of Science.

Bruce's current research is focussed in four main areas:

• Solar energy conversion, photocatalysis & renewable fuels.
• Computational chemistry used to probe primary and secondary structure.
• Surface and structural analysis by spectroscopy.
• Development of modified surfaces for micro-array sensors.

Research and teaching experience includes:

• Photocatalysis
• Materials preparation and characterisation
• Computational chemistry and molecular modelling
• Spectroscopy
• Surface science
• Electrochemistry
• Self-assembled monolayers & surface modification.

Bruce welcomes enquiries from potential collaborators regarding these and future projects or Erasmus exchanges.  Having spent time working in Geneva he is able to speak French, albeit with la lenteur suisse. As such, he would particularly welcome hearing from Francophone institutions.

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