Dr. George Whittell
George Whittell was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1975. After a happy 18 years living in the country, he left the green land of his forefathers for the city life of Bristol. He subsequently read for a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Chemistry, graduating in 1996. Having evidently enjoyed this experience so much, he decided to stay on and worked in the area of transition metal-boryl chemistry with Prof. Nick Norman, completing his Ph.D. in 2000. Realising that the UK was just a small part of a big planet and looking to ply has trade overseas, he was awarded a Royal Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship that he served with Prof. Warren Roper, FRS at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. As before, he got carried away, this time working on the synthesis of osmium-stannyl complexes and following a short stint as a Marsden Fund Postdoctoral Fellow, decided to get his coat in early 2003. Rumour has it that some of this work may soon be published. Having spent a few months making the trip back to the Northern Hemisphere, he found himself poor, unemployed and living back in Suffolk. Fortunately, Prof. Holger Braunschweig offered him an attractive escape to Wuerzburg, where he spent the next two years studying the synthesis and reactivity of transtion metal-borylene complexes. Since 2005, he has occupied his current position as a Senior Research Associate / Research Officer to Prof. Ian Manners and is interested in many aspects of metallocenophane and polymer chemistries. In his free time, he enjoys 5-a-side football, aikido and guitar orientated music. He has also been known to enjoy the odd ale from time to time.
G.Whittell@bristol.ac.uk
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