David Logan

Biography

  Professor David Edwin Logan (born 27 August 1956)' is a Northern Irish chemist, and has been Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford since 2005. From 1986 he worked at the University of Oxford. From 1996-2005 he was a Professor of Chemistry. From 1986-2005 he was Waters Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1996 he spent time at the Theory Division of the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble. From the Royal Society of Chemistry he was awarded the Marlow Medal and Prize in 1990. He is based in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory on South Parks Road in Oxford. He is responsible for the Theoretical Chemistry Group.

Research Interest

  Professor Edwin's research interest  centres on developing microscopic theories for a variety of experimentally relevant phenomena relating to the electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter. This encompasses both the vast world of the solid state, be it crystalline or amorphous, as well as topical mesoscopic and nanoscale systems such as quantum dots and molecular electronic devices. The work is very much interdisciplinary, straddling the borders of chemistry, physics and materials.