Martin Schröder (chemist)


Martin Schröder is a British inorganic chemist. He is Vice President and Dean for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester since June 2015. Previously served as executive dean of the Faculty of Science from 2011 to 2015 and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham from 1995 to 2015.

Early life and education

Schröder was born of Estonian parents in Buckinghamshire in 1954, and educated at the local Slough Grammar School. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degre in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1975 followed by a PhD from Imperial College London in 1978 where his research was supervised by William P. Griffith.

Career and research

During Schröder's career he has held the following appointments:
Schröder moved to the University of Manchester in 2015 as Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Professor of Chemistry.

Awards and honours

Schröder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His awards include the Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1991, a Royal Society of Edinburgh Support research fellowship in 1991-2, Tilden Prize in 2001, the Royal Society of Chemistry award for the chemistry of transition metals in 2003, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2005.