About K J Haxton

I am a lecturer in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at Keele University in the United Kingdom.  Where's Keele?  Well, it is about as far away from the seaside as you can get in the UK. It is near the city of Stoke-On-Trent, and a couple of hours from London by train.

Prior to starting at Keele (auspiciously on April Fool's Day 2008), I was a Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. I worked on a project concerned with the delivery of cisplatin, a platinum based anticancer compound, with hyperbranched and dendritic polymers with Prof. Helen Burt.  Before that, I did my PhD at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom, and worked on dendrimers based on the POSS core for homogeneous catalysis with Prof. Russell Morris.  The coherent thread throughout my research career to date is that I stick metals on polymers and see what happens.

I have been at Keele for nearly 2 years now and am in the process of starting a research group in the areas mentioned elsewhere on this site.  In addition to research, I teach spectroscopy, maths for chemists, inorganic and polymer chemistry at a variety of levels (pre-uni, 1st, 2nd and 3rd year) and supervise a number of final year project students (chemistry) and dissertation students (forensic science).  I write when I have the time and energy, mainly on blog at Endless Possibilities, but usually manage to find the time to twitter.  In 2009 I was fortunate enough to take part in NESTA's Crucible program, and record a Chemistry in it's Element PodCast for Chemistry World on Platinum.