Birchall Centre - Keele University

The Birchall Centre is home to academics whose general fields of research cover inorganic chemistry and materials science and straddle areas as seemingly diverse as sustainable energy, bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, polymers, porous materials and surface science. The Birchall Centre fosters an environment in which fundamental and applied sciences across this breadth of fields can both prosper and inform one another.

More information about the history and philosophy behind the Centre and about Derek Birchall FRS OBE, whom the Centre was named after, can be found by selecting the tab above.

The Centre is located in the Lennard-Jones Laboratories and currently comprises 11 academic staff members, 2 postdoctoral researchers and 8 research students.