Philipp Kukura

Last updated

Philipp Kukura
Born (1978-03-26) 26 March 1978 (age 45)
Alma mater St Hugh's College, Oxford (MChem, 2002)
University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry (PhD, 2006)
Awards Marlow Award (2015)
EBSA Young Investigator Award and Medal (2015)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2017)
Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (Chemistry) (2017)
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists UK (Chemistry) (2019)
Scientific career
Fields Physical chemistry
Institutions Exeter College, Oxford
Doctoral advisor Richard A. Mathies

Philipp Kukura FRSC (born 26 March 1978) is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. [1] He is best known for pioneering contributions to femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS), interferometric scattering microscopy (iSCAT) and the development of mass photometry.

Contents

Education and early life

He was born in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia [2] in a family of Slovak actor Juraj Kukura. In 1984 the family emigrated to Germany. In 2002 he graduated with a Master of Chemistry from the University of Oxford and competed in the 2001 and 2002 Rugby League Varsity matches. In 2006 he completed his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry.

Career and research

After completing his PhD, Philipp Kukura moved to Zürich. There he worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral research assistant under the supervision of Professor Vahid Sandoghdar on nano-optics until 2010. [2] He returned to Oxford in 2010 to work initially as an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow. In 2011 he was elected to a tutorial fellowship at Exeter College. [2] In 2016 he was promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry. [1]

In 2018 Philipp Kukura founded Refeyn Ltd. to commercialise mass photometry. [1]

Selected publications

Honours and awards

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leroy Cronin</span> British chemist

Leroy "Lee" CroninFRSE FRSC is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry in 2013. He was previously the Gardiner Chair, appointed April 2009.

The Klung Wilhelmy Science Award is an annual German award in the field of science, alternating annually between the categories of chemistry and physics. It is bestowed upon outstanding younger German scientists under the age of 40.

The Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes are annual prizes awarded by Royal Society of Chemistry to chemists in Britain who are 34 years of age or below. The prize is given to scientist who demonstrate the most meritorious and promising original investigations in chemistry and published results of those investigations. There are 3 prizes given every year, each winning £5000 and a medal. Candidates are not permitted to nominate themselves.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molly Stevens</span> British academic

Molly Morag Stevens is Professor of Biomedical Materials and regenerative medicine and Research Director for Biomedical Materials Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Teri W. Odom</span> American chemist and materials scientist

Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the chair of the chemistry department, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with the university's International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and department of applied physics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Attfield</span>

John Paul Attfield is a Professor of Materials science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC).

Robert Paton won the 2015 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Up to three Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes are awarded each year. Paton received the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the American Chemical Society COMP division in fall 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Interferometric scattering microscopy</span>

Interferometric scattering microscopy (iSCAT) refers to a class of methods that detect and image a subwavelength object by interfering the light scattered by it with a reference light field. The underlying physics is shared by other conventional interferometric methods such as phase contrast or differential interference contrast, or reflection interference microscopy. The key feature of iSCAT is the detection of elastic scattering from subwavelength particles, also known as Rayleigh scattering, in addition to reflected or transmission signals from supra-wavelength objects. Typically, the challenge is the detection of tiny signals on top of large and complex, speckle-like backgrounds. iSCAT has been used to investigate nanoparticles such as viruses, proteins, lipid vesicles, DNA, exosomes, metal nanoparticles, semiconductor quantum dots, charge carriers and single organic molecules without the need for a fluorescent label.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David J. Wales</span> British chemist (born 1963)

David John Wales is a professor of chemical physics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Sir Harry Work Melville, was a British chemist, academic, and academic administrator, who specialised in polymer research. He spent his early career in academia as a lecturer and researcher, before moving into administration as a civil servant and university college head.

Julie Macpherson is a professor of chemistry at the University of Warwick. In 2017 she was awarded the Royal Society Innovation award for her research into boron doped diamond electrochemical sensors.

Charlotte Williams is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the synthesis of novel catalysts with an expertise in organometallic chemistry and polymer materials chemistry.

Rachel O'Reilly is a British chemist and Professor at the University of Birmingham. She works at the interface of biology and materials, creating polymers that can mimic natural nanomaterials such as viruses and cells. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Royal Society.

Rebecca Jane Miriam Goss is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of St. Andrews who won the 2006 Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal. She is known for combining synthetic biology and chemistry for medicinal purposes.

Helen H. Fielding is a Professor of physical chemistry at University College London (UCL). She focuses on ultrafast transient spectroscopy of protein chromophores and molecules. She was the first woman to win the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (1996) and Marlow Award (2001).

Andrew L. GoodwinFRS is a university research professor and professor of materials chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Matthew John Fuchter is a British chemist who is a Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the development and application of novel functional molecular systems to a broad range of areas; from materials to medicine. He has been awarded both the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2014) and the Corday–Morgan Prizes (2021) of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2020 he was a finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

Susan Perkin is a British chemist who is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the physics of liquids and soft matter. She was awarded the 2016 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize and named the Soft Matter Lecturer of 2018. In 2015 Perkin was awarded a European Research Council starting grant and in 2020 she was awarded a European Research Council consolidator grant.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolfgang A. Herrmann</span> German chemist and academic administrator

Wolfgang Anton Herrmann is a German chemist and academic administrator. From 1995 to 2019, he was President of the Technical University of Munich.

Hosea Nelson is an American chemist who is a professor at California Institute of Technology. His research investigates the design and total synthesis of complex molecules. He was a finalist for the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Kukura, Philipp. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Professor Philipp Kukura". Exeter College.
  3. "Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize 2011 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  4. "ERC FUNDED PROJECTS". European Research Council. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  5. "Marlow Award 2015 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  6. "Prizes and medals awarded by EBSA". European Biophysical Societies' Association. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  7. "Award Winners in the field of chemistry since 1973". Klung-Wilhelmy-Wissenschafts-Preis. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  8. "Philipp Kukura — 2019 United Kingdom Award Winner — Faculty" . Retrieved 19 March 2021.