Fraser Armstrong Frs
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Biography
Fraser Andrew Armstrong, FRS, is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. 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). 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.
Research Interest
Simon Aldridge's research is focused on the redox chemistry of bioinorganic proteins and enzymes: multielectron catalysts, enzymes, and complex metalloproteins such as multi-heme cytochromes c. For the past decade, he have specialized in the use of protein electrochemistry as a means of monitoring biological electron transfer processes coupled to enzymatic chemistry and longrange, extra-cellular ET.
Publications
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Goris T, Wait AF, Saggu M, Fritsch J, Heidary N, Stein M, Zebger I, Lendzian F, Armstrong FA, Friedrich B, Lenz O. A unique iron-sulfur cluster is crucial for oxygen tolerance of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase. Nature chemical biology. 2011 May 1;7(5):310-8.
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Lee CY, Stevenson GP, Parkin A, Roessler MM, Baker RE, Gillow K, Gavaghan DJ, Armstrong FA, Bond AM. Theoretical and experimental investigation of surface-confined two-center metalloproteins by large-amplitude Fourier transformed ac voltammetry. Journal of electroanalytical chemistry. 2011 Jun 15;656(1):293-303.
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Woolerton TW, Sheard S, Pierce E, Ragsdale SW, Armstrong FA. CO2 photoreduction at enzyme-modified metal oxide nanoparticles. Energy & Environmental Science. 2011;4(7):2393-9.
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Armstrong FA, Hirst J. Reversibility and efficiency in electrocatalytic energy conversion and lessons from enzymes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2011 Aug 23;108(34):14049-54.
