Within the broad field of Particle Physics research he has made particular contributions to experiments in the areas of quarks, neutrinos and the stability of matter. He is particularly interested in using non-covalent interactions, such as metal coordination and hydrophobic binding, to control the synthesis and properties of electronically conjugated structures.
Current projects focus on porphyrins, cyanine dyes, cyclodextrins, rotaxanes and poly-rotaxanes.
Dr I W Archer MA DPhil. Dr Ian Archer is an early modern historian, whose primary research interests lie in social history. An expert on guilds, he has also published The History of the Haberdashers' Company. He is currently working on charity in early modern England. He has published on Late Bronze Age Crete and Greece, explicitly integrating material and textual evidence, and has conducted fieldwork on Crete and mainland Greece, most recently in Messenia, where he was fieldwork director for the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project.