Professor Andrew Weller

Since January 2020 Andrew Weller has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of York. Prior to this he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. He moved to Oxford in 2007, after starting his independent career at the University Bath in 1999 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He completed his first degree at the University of Warwick, a PhD at Bristol (advised by Dr John Jeffery), and PDRA positions at Heriot–Watt (Professor Alan Welch) and Notre Dame (Professor Tom Fehlner).

Weller was the recipient of the inaugural RSC Dalton Transactions European Lectureship award in 2008 and the RSC Frankland award in 2016. He was a 2013/2014 Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Visiting Scholar, UBC, Canada; in 2015 the Howard Fellow, University New South Wales, Australia, a visiting Professor at the University of Perugia, Italy; a Vielberth Fellowship at the University of Regensburg (2016); the Ray and Dorothy Wilson Lecturer UCLA (2020); visiting Professor University of Strasbourg (2021); a honorary faculty member in the centre for nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, India (2021–2023); and the Raymond Sielde Distinguished Lecturer, Indiana University (2022). He was a holder of an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship (2015–2022). While at Oxford he was co–director of the recently funded EPSRC CDT in Inorganic Synthesis for Future Manufacturing (OxICFM). He is an associate editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Catalysis Science and Technology.

Professor Andrew Weller
Department of Chemistry | University of York | York | UK | YO10 5DD

Tel: 01904 326571
Email: andrew.weller@york.ac.uk