Richard Compton 

Biography

  Richard G Compton is Professor of Chemistry and Aldrichian Praelector at Oxford University, United Kingdom where he is also Tutor in Chemistry at St John's College. He has published more than 1300 papers and 7 books. The 2nd edition of his graduate textbook was published in late 2010 by Imperial College Press and the companion Understanding Voltammetry: Problems and Solutions in 2012. He is a co-author of the scientific biography A G Stromberg - First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen. Letters from the GULAG and a History of Electroanalysis in the USSR. His patents have been filed on 25 different topics. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Estonian Agricultural University and Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics (Ukraine) and is a Fellow of the RSC and of the ISE. He is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electrochemistry Communications  published by Elsevier.

Research Interest

  Compton has broad interests in both fundamental and applied electrochemistry and electroanalysis including nanochemical aspects. Topics of current and recent research:Fundamental Electrochemistry,Computational Electrochemistry and Simulation, Electroanalysis, Bioelectrochemistry, Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, Atomic Force Microscopy, Laser Activated and Photo-voltammetry, Liquid|Liquid Electrochemistry, Sonoelectrochemistry, Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy, Fast Scan Voltammetry, Photoelectrochemistry.