Andrew Orr-Ewing

Andrew John Orr-Ewing (born 1965)[1] FRS FRSC MAE[3] is a British chemist and Professor of physical chemistry at the University of Bristol. His work investigates the mechanisms of chemical reaction in both the gas and liquid phases and has used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to observe the effects of solvents on molecular reaction and the dynamics of photodissociation.[2][3][4][5]

Andrew Orr-Ewing FRS FRSC
Born	Andrew John Orr-Ewing 1965 (age 54–55)[1]
Education	Dr Challoner's Grammar School[1]
Alma mater	University of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Awards	Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1994) Marlow Medal (1999) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2006) Tilden Prize (2009) Fellow of the Royal Society (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Ultrafast laser spectroscopy Reaction dynamics Atmospheric chemistry[2]
Institutions	University of Bristol Stanford University
Thesis	Laser studies of reaction dynamics (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Gus Hancock[3]
Influences	Richard Zare
Website	bris.ac.uk/chemistry/people/andrew-j-orr-ewing

Education

Orr-Ewing was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School[1] and Jesus College Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree by the University of Oxford in 1988. In 1991 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physical chemistry for research supervised by Gus Hancock,[3][6] also at the University of Oxford.

Career and research

Following his PhD, Orr-Ewing completed two years of post-doctoral research supervised by Richard Zare at Stanford University in California,[7] and was then a Royal Society Elizabeth Challenor research fellow at the University of Bristol, where he was later appointed Professor of physical chemistry in August 2004.

Awards and honours

Orr-Ewing has received awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry including the Edward Harrison Memorial Prize in 1994, the Marlow Medal in 1999, the Tilden Prize in 2009, and awards in optical spectroscopy in 2002 and chemical dynamics in 2014. He was a Leverhulme Trust senior research fellow in 2005, and received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award from 2006 to 2011.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017[3] and a Member of the Academiae Europaea in 2018.

References

1. Anon (2017) "Orr-Ewing, Prof. Andrew John". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.289299. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
2. Andrew Orr-Ewing publications indexed by Google Scholar
3. Anon (2017). "Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
4. Andrew Orr-Ewing publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
5. Andrew Orr-Ewing publications from Europe PubMed Central
6. Orr-Ewing, Andrew John (1991). Laser studies of reaction dynamics. solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 53493953. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.302888.
7. Orr-Ewing, A J; Zare, R N (1994). "Orientation and Alignment of Reaction Products". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 45 (1): 315–366. Bibcode:1994ARPC...45..315O. doi:10.1146/annurev.pc.45.100194.001531. ISSN 0066-426X.

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