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Professor Richard Catlow (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Chemistry) has been appointed Executive Dean of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Mathematical & Physical Sciences. He succeeds Professor David Price (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Earth Sciences), who has become Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Vice-Provost (Research).

Professor Catlow is Head of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Chemistry, and formerly Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution and Director of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory. His work explores the structures, properties and reactivities of complex materials using a combination of computer modelling and experimental techniques.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 "for pioneering the development and application of computer modelling techniques in material chemistry".

In 2005, the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council's review of high-performance computing (HPC) commended his research group: "In the area of HPC simulations of materials and nanoscience, Richard Catlow's group has achieved major progress in studies of heterogeneous catalytic processes. In the course of their development of the most advanced molecular dynamics code, simulations of several million atoms have been carried out - a world record for simulations of materials with charged ions."

Professor Catlow said: "Being Head of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Chemistry for the last five years has been a privilege, particularly seeing the department building its collaborations beyond the field of chemistry. My own published work, for example, has been in physics and earth sciences as well as in chemistry.

"Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Mathematical & Physical Sciences is similarly well-positioned - with strengths across the board and an open, interactive culture - to engage further in interdisciplinary collaborations across the faculty, with other Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê faculties and with external partner organisations. As Executive Dean I will be keen, in particular, to build on the potential for problem-solving in collaboration with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Biomedical Sciences and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Engineering Sciences."

Executive deans of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's eight faculties are appointed by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Council and, with the Vice-Provosts, are members of the President and Provost's Senior Management Team.

To find out more about Professor Catlow or the President and Provost's Senior Management Team, use the links at the top of this article.