Dr Russell Minns
Associate Professor (From Royal Society University Research Fellow)

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Russell Minns is an Associate Professor within the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on time resolved spectroscopy of photochemical processes in the gas and solution phase, with a particular emphasis on the use of advanced light sources for novel spectroscopies.
We are fascinated by photochemistry and how molecules react to the light they absorb. In order to understand what happens we use laser pulses with ultrashort durations to capture the motion of molecules in real time.
Russell graduated with a first-class degree in Chemistry from Kings College London in 2001. He then worked with Professor Helen Fielding on Rydberg molecules obtaining his PhD in 2005. Following postdoctoral positions at the University of Virginia and UCL he was awarded a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship in 2009. In 2011 he moved to the University of Southampton to begin a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and in 2019 he was promoted to Associate Professor.
MSci, Chemistry, Kings College London, 2001
PhD, UCL 2005