Name Fraser Armstrong Role Professor | Education University of Leeds | |
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Fraser Andrew Armstrong, FRS, is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
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Birth and education
Fraser Armstrong was born in Cambridge, England, in 1951. He obtained his BSc (1975) and PhD (1978) at the University of Leeds with Geoff Sykes and then carried out postdoctoral research with Peter Kroneck (Konstanz), Ralph Wilkins (New Mexico), Helmut Beinert (Madison), and H Allen O Hill (Oxford).
Academic career
In 1983 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which he held in Oxford until 1989, when he joined the Chemistry Faculty at the University of California, Irvine. He moved to his present position in 1993. His interests are in biological redox chemistry, in particular the application of dynamic electrochemical techniques in studies of complex electron-transfer and catalytic reactions in proteins, and most recently the mechanisms and exploitation of biological hydrogen cycling. He was the president of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) from 2004 to 2006.