Howard Colquhoun

Howard Colquhoun (born 1951) is Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Reading. After degrees at Cambridge (St Catharine's College, MA) and London (Westfield College, PhD), Howard Colquhoun carried out research at the University of Warwick and then at the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Cheshire before moving to Manchester University in 1994 as a Royal Society Industry Fellow. He was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Salford from 1997, and in 2000 was appointed to the Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of Reading. In 2007 he was elected a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. His research has contributed to the fields of silicon chemistry, coordination chemistry, dinitrogen chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and polymer chemistry. Awards for his work include the RSC Medal and Prize for Materials Chemistry (2005),[1] the Wilsmore Fellowship of the University of Melbourne (2007), the degree of Doctor of Science (ScD) of the University of Cambridge (2008),[2] the Macro Group UK Medal for contributions to polymer science (2012),[3] and the Brian Mercer Feasibility Award of the Royal Society (2013).[4]