Simon Aldridge FRS

Education 1992-1996  DPhil Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford (with Tony Downs; viva: March 1996)

1988-1992  BA(Hons) Chemistry, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Present Position 2025-  Head of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford 2024-  Director, EPSRC CDT in Inorganic Materials for Advanced Manufacturing (IMAT), University of Oxford 2019-  Director, EPSRC CDT in Inorganic Chemistry for Future Manufacturing (OxICFM), University of Oxford 2010-  Professor of Main Group Chemistry, University of Oxford

2007-  Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry, The Queen's College, Oxford

Awards and Visiting Professorships (selected) 2026  Lappert Prize Lectureship  2024  Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2021  Humboldt Forschungspreis (Senior Research Award), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2018  Royal Society of Chemistry Frankland Award 2018  Visiting Lecturer, Organometallic Chemistry Division (GEQO) of the Spanish RSEQ 2014  Distinguished Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 2012  University Visiting Professor, Monash University, Australia 2010  Royal Society of Chemistry Main Group Chemistry Award 2009  Dalton Transactions European Lectureship