Prof Rob Brown

I graduated from the University of Birmingham with BSc(Hons) Chemistry in 1973, and the University of Leicester with a PhD in physical chemistry in 1977. I worked in industry for two years and then held teaching posts at Illinois State University and the University of Houston. I returned to the UK in 1987 and was Senior Lecturer/Principal Lecturer at Leeds Polytechnic before joining the University of Huddersfield in 1997.

I teach in areas across physical chemistry, and on the Science Foundation Year. My research interests are in catalysis, solid acids, solid bases and porous solids, biofuels, adsorption and calorimetry.

I am the Director of the Materials and Catalysis Research Centre in the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences. Enquiries about the activities of the Centre and opportunities in it are very welcome. I have a number of administrative responsibilities, mainly to do with research and research student training, in the Department, in the School and more widely across the University.