Prof David Cole-Hamilton, FRSE

Career: temp lectr Imperial Coll London 1975-78 (post doctoral fell 1974-75), sr lectr Univ of Liverpool 1983-85 (lectr 1978-83), Irvine prof of chemistry Univ of St Andrews 1985-; chm: Chemistry Sectional Ctee Royal Soc of Edinburgh 1994-95, Chemistry Section Br Assoc for the Advancement of Science 1995-96; 320 pubns on organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis; RSC: Corday Morgan medallist 1983, Sir Edward Frankland fell 1984-85, Industry Award for Organometallic Chemistry 1998, Tilden Lectureship 2000-01, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize Lectureship 2005-06; runner-up Museums and Galleries Cmmn Award for Innovation in Conservation 1995, runner-up Acad Award IChemE 2001; FRSE 1988, FRSC (memb Cncl 2009-, chm Audit Ctee 2011-)

Books and Publications: Reactions of Organometallic Compounds with Surfaces (ed, 1989), Catalyst Separation, Recovery and Recycling: Chemistry and Process Design (ed, 2006)