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Professor Nik Kaltsoyannis

Department of Chemistry and Centre for Radiochemistry Research,

The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Nik Kaltsoyannis was educated at both undergraduate and doctoral levels at the University of Oxford, UK, completing his DPhil with Professor Jennifer Green in 1992. He subsequently moved to the USA, first to a University Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Ohio State with Professor Bruce Bursten, and then to a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Dr Norman Edelstein. He returned to the UK in 1994, and spent 21 years on the academic staff at University College London, becoming full Professor of Computational Chemistry in 2007. In 2015 he moved to the University of Manchester, where he is currently Professor and Head of Computational Chemistry, and Co‑Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research. His research interests focus on the quantum chemical study of molecular and extended solid compounds of the f elements. He has authored more than 200 primary research articles, an f element textbook, and several book chapters and reviews.