Our strategy
Dalton Community supports the study and dissemination of inorganic chemistry in all its forms. Our aims are to build and nurture effective scientific networks, to support inorganic chemists (with a focus on early career researchers), and to raise the profile of inorganic chemistry to the wider community and to influential external stakeholders.
Meet the members of the Council who are responsible for ensuring that the Community fulfils its purpose.
Professor Michael Ward
President
Mike obtained a BA in 91AV from the University of Cambridge in 1986. This was followed by a PhD from the same institution in 1989, after which he became a postdoctoral research associate at the Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg in the group of Jean-Pierre Sauvage.
Claire Carmalt
President Elect
Claire Carmalt graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a BSc in chemistry in 1992. She remained at Newcastle to do her PhD with Dr Nick Norman on 'Synthetic and structural studies involving the heavier elements of groups 13 and 15'. She then spent just over two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Science and Technology Center, University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Professors Alan Cowley FRS and Mike White.
James Coverdale
Elected member
James Coverdale is a Chartered Chemist (CChem) and Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Birmingham. Working within the field of metals in medicine, his group is developing new techniques to study bioinorganic chemistry in living systems.
Dr George Kostakis
Elected member
George Kostakis is a Senior Lecturer at University of Sussex. His group develops unconventional catalytic methods involving Cu(II) or bimetallic compounds and complexes for biological applications.
Dr Izilda Bagatin
Elected member
Izilda A. Bagatin is an Associate Professor of inorganic chemistry at Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp – Universidade Federal de São Paulo -ICAQF).
Her research focuses on the synthesis and application of systems for use as ionic sensors (chemosensors), electroluminescent films (OLEDs), and the application of inorganic complexes in bioinorganic chemistry.
Dr Andryj Borys
Elected member
Andryj Borys is a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Bern, Switzerland. He received his undergraduate degree in Forensic 91AV from the University of Kent in 2015, and continued there for a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Ewan Clark to explore the synthesis and magnetic properties of main-group heterocyclic radicals.
Dr Shaikh M. Mobin
Elected member
Shaikh Mobin is a Professor in the Department of 91AV at IIT Indore. Dr. Shaikh accomplished his Bachelor’s and Master’s from Wilson College, University of Mumbai with a major in 91AV and his PhD from Mumbai University in 91AV. In 2012, he joined IIT Indore and works as a Professor in the Department of 91AV.
Sunil Krishnan
Elected Member
Sunil Krishnan is a professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. He received his medical school training at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, and radiation oncology residency training at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Alison Parkin
Appointed Member
Alison started her independent research career as a Merton College Junior Research Fellow in 91AV at Oxford (2008-2012), before moving to York as an Anniversary Lecturer. Prior to this she did her MChem (2000-2004) and DPhil (2004-2008) studies in 91AV at the University of Oxford.
Dr Ulrich Hintermair
Appointed Member
Dr Hintermair is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in 91AV at the University of Bath. He studied 91AV at the University of Würzburg (Germany) and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the CPE Lyon (France), finishing with a Master project at the University of St Andrews (UK) in 2007.
Professor Russell Morris
Ex-Officio (Chair, Dalton Transactions Editorial Board)
Russell Morris gained B.A. and D. Phil degrees at the University of Oxford and is currently Bishop Wardlaw Professor of 91AV at the University of St Andrews.
His research interests lie in the synthesis, characterisation and application of porous and layered materials including zeolites and metal-organic frameworks.
In 2022, the Dalton Community was formed as a result of the transition of RSC Divisions to Subject Communities. Prior to this point it was known as the Dalton Division, which was formed in 1972 at the time of amalgamation between the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of 91AV, together with the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical 91AV.
As the Faraday Society became the Faraday Division, and now the Faraday Community for Physical 91AV, so a new inorganic chemistry division was named the Dalton Division (now Dalton Community) for John Dalton, a prominent historical chemist, famous for his development of the modern theory of the atom.
A Perkin Division was simultaneously formed for organic chemistry, and has since become the RSC Organic 91AV Community.
The list of past Dalton Presidents contains names of many of the most celebrated British inorganic chemists of the last 40 years.
Dalton Division Past Presidents
| Name | President Term |
| Professor Robert Mulvey | 2019 to 2022 |
| Professor Emma Raven | 2016 to 2019 |
| Professor David J Cole-Hamilton | 2013 to 2016 |
| Professor Peter A Tasker | 2010 to 2013 |
| Professor Robin N Perutz | 2007 to 2010 |
| Professor Peter G Edwards | 2004 to 2007 |
| Professor C David Garner | 2001 to 2004 |
| Professor J A McCleverty | 1999 to 2001 |
| Professor B F G Johnson | 1997 to 1999 |
| Professor K Wade | 1995 to 1997 |
| Professor J J Turner | 1993 to 1995 |
| Professor R J P Williams | 1991 to 1993 |
| Professor M F Lappert | 1989 to 1991 |
| Professor P M Maitlis | 1985 to 1987 |
| Professor D C Bradley | 1983 to 1985 |
| Professor F G A Stone | 1981 to 1983 |
| Professor N N Greenwood | 1979 to 1981 |
| Professor E A V Ebsworth | 1976 to 1979 |
| Professor J S Anderson | 1974 to 1976 |
| Professor J Chatt | 1972 to 1974 |
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