Robin Perutz
Robin Perutz FRS is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of York, where he was formerly head of department between 2000 and 2004. He is also the son of the Nobel Prize winner Max Perutz.
Perutz's research spans inorganic chemistry, photochemistry, and catalysis. In particular, his interests lie in the mechanistic details of homogeneous catalysis by transition metal complexes, and is responsible for many techniques used in the field. Perutz's research has enabled chemists to take a different approach to fundamental reactions and many industrial processes.
Education
Perutz graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Natural Sciences in 1971. He subsequently worked for his PhD alongside Professor Jim Turner FRS, initially in Cambridge and then at Newcastle University. His focus was on utilising photochemical metal carbonyl dissociation in low temperature matrices, producing seminal work on the interaction of Cr5 with ‘inert’ matrix hosts, including CH4 and Xe.Awards and distinctions
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Franco-British Prize of the French Chemical Society
- Sacconi Medal of Italian Chemical Society and Sacconi Foundation
- President of Dalton Division of the Royal [Society of Chemistry]
- Nyholm Medal and Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Plenary and invited lectures
- Plenary Lecture ACS Winter Fluorine Conference, Florida
- Invited Lecture International Symposium on Photophysics and Photochemistry of Coordination Compounds, Hong Kong
- Troisième Cycle Lecturer, Bern, Basel, Neuchatel & Lausanne, Switzerland