ProfessorNick Quirke

Nick Quirke is Professor of Chemical Physics. His research group conducts fundamental research in key areas of nanoscience with strong support from EPSRC, the EU and industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Editor-in-Chief of the international interdisciplinary computational journal, Molecular Simulation, as well as the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience and Nanoscience Methods. He was Principal, Science and Engineering, and Vice President, University College Dublin (2006-2011) on leave from Imperial. Prior to UCD he was Head of the Computational, Theoretical and Structural Chemistry group, Imperial College, Director, Masters Programme in Nanomaterials, Imperial College and Visiting Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory (1998- 2006) . He received the 1998 Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Statistical Mechanics and was Royal Society/Kan Tong Po Professor at the University of Hong Kong for the session 2003/2004. He was awarded the 2006 NSTI Fellow Award