Daniel Keddie

Biography

Dr Daniel J. Keddie is Senior Lecturer of Organic Chemistry in the School of Biology, Chemistry and Forensic Science at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. After completing both his BAppSc (hons) (2003) and PhD (2008) in synthetic organic/free radical chemistry at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, he undertook postdoctoral research at the same institution in the area of silicone polymer synthesis. In 2009, he moved to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia to undertake an OCE postdoctoral fellowship working with Dr Graeme Moad, co-inventor of the RAFT process. He remained at CSIRO until taking up a position as Lecturer of Organic Chemistry at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, Australia in late 2012, relinquishing this role in early 2015. He subsequently relocated to the UK and following a short appointment working on commercial research at the University of Warwick, UK, he took up his current position at Wolverhampton in July 2015. His research interests include the development of new methods in polymer synthesis, the characterization and application of novel polymeric materials and the design and synthesis of functional small molecules

Research Interest

Dr Keddie's research interests include: free radical chemistry; development of new methods in functional polymer synthesis; precision polymer synthesis (particularly RAFT and ROMP); transition metal catalysis; photochemistry; polymer self-assembly; characterization and application of complex polymeric materials (particularly towards biological systems and catalysis); high-throughput experimentation; silicon chemistry.