Sharon Ashbrook

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Sharon Ashbrook
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Born26 January 1975
Alma mater Hertford College
University of Exeter
University of Cambridge
Awards Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
Corday-Morgan Prize
Edward Harrison Memorial Prize
Suffrage Science Award (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews

Sharon Elizabeth Marie Ashbrook (born 26 January 1975) is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. [1] Her research is focused on the application of multinuclear solid-state NMR spectroscopy [2] techniques as well as the combination of these techniques with first-principles calculations to investigate structure, order and dynamics of solid state materials.

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Other areas of interest include microporous framework materials, high pressure minerals and the encapsulation of nuclear waste with ceramics. [1]

Education and career

Ashbrook studied Chemistry at Hertford College in Oxford in 1997 [3] and then remained in Oxford to study for her DPhil. Ashbrook then moved to a postdoctoral research post at the University of Exeter. Later Ashbrook was then awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

Ashbrook has published over 110 papers in the area of structure and disorder in the solid state, using NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations. [4]

Honours and prizes

Her work has garnered awards and prizes for her research using solid-state NMR spectroscopy and first-principles calculations to uncover the structure of materials and their chemical reactivity.

In 2017, Ashbrook was awarded the Suffrage Science Award after her work on the "Academic Women Now" booklet about academic women in Scotland. [5]

Professional activities

Ashbrook was elected a Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (2011), the Institute of Physics, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and the Ampere Board of Trustees (2016-2020). [6] [5] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Chemistry. [7] She also regularly organises outreach programs with local schools through her role as the Vice-Chair of the Tayside Local Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry and as a RSE Fellow. [8]

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