Howard Colquhoun
Howard Colquhoun is Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Reading. He was born in County Durham in 1951 and was educated at Washington Grammar School, the University of Cambridge (MA, St Catharine's College) and the University of London (PhD, Westfield College). He carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Warwick and was then a researcher at the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Cheshire where he and Fraser Stoddart developed a useful collaboration. In 1994 he moved to Manchester University as a Royal Society Industry Fellow. From 1997 he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at  the University of Salford. In 2000 he was appointed to the Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of Reading where, from 2002 to 2006, he was Head of the School of Chemistry. In 2007 he was elected a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. His research has contributed to the fields of silicon chemistry, boron chemistry, coordination chemistry, dinitrogen chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and polymer chemistry, resulting in some 250 publications. Awards for his work include the RSC Medal and Prize for Materials Chemistry (2005), the Wilsmore Fellowship of the University of Melbourne (2007), the degree of Doctor  of Science (ScD) of the University of Cambridge (2008), the Macro Group UK Medal for contributions to polymer science (2012), and the Brian Mercer Feasibility Award of the Royal Society (2013). He retired in 2018.