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Sharon Ashbrook is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. Her research is focused on the application of multinuclear solid-state NMR spectroscopy techniques as well as the combination of these techniques with first-principles calculations to investigate structure, order and dynamics of solid state materials.
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Other areas of interest include microporous framework materials, high pressure minerals and the encapsulation of nuclear waste with ceramics.
Education and career
Ashbrook studied Chemistry at Hertford College, Oxford, remained in Oxford to study for her DPhil, and then moved to a postdoctoral research post at the University of Exeter. She was then awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.
Ashbrook has published over 110 papers in the area of structure and disorder in the solid state, using NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations.
Honours and Prizes
Her work has garnered awards and prizes, including a Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Prize in 2015 for her contribution to the structure of materials by using a combination of solid-state NMR spectroscopy and first-principles calculations.
She has also been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Harrison Prize (2004) and the Marlow Award (2011), and the Makdougall Brisbane Medal (2012) from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Ashbrook was elected a Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland in 2011, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016.