Dr Guy Denuault PhD
Associate Professor in Electrochemistry, Organiser of the Southampton Electrochemistry Summer School
Guy Denuault is Associate Professor of Electrochemistry. His research focuses on electroanalytical chemistry with particular emphasis on the theory and application of microelectrodes, scanning electrochemical microscopy, nanostructured microelectrodes, and the modelling of electrochemical processes. He has been organising the Southampton Electrochemistry Summer School since 1998.
Guy Denuault undertook his undergraduate training at the Reims Institute of Technology where he received his first degree and subsequently at Bordeaux University where he received his Master’s degree. He joined the Southampton Electrochemistry Group and carried out experimental and theoretical (analytical + modelling) investigations into the application of ultramicroelectrodes in mechanistic and kinetic studies of coupled chemical reactions. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 and moved to the University of Texas at Austin where in the group of Allen Bard he worked on the development of the scanning electrochemical microscope (SECM). He returned to Southampton and was awarded a 5-year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship. He was appointed Lecturer (1993) and Senior Lecturer (2000). He is the author / co-author of over 60 publications and 5 book chapters.
He was the Secretary of the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1995 – 2000), visiting professor at the University of São Paolo (1998), University of Bordeaux (1999), National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (2006) and University of Oldenburg (2011-2012). In 2011 he became a Fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Advanced Study Institute. His research on microelectrodes and scanning electrochemical microscopy has led him to deliver postgraduate courses overseas (Lausanne, Neuchatel, Bern, Geneva, Buenos Aires, São Paulo) and to present invited research seminars in the UK and abroad (Buenos Aires, Rio Cuarto, Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Campinas, San Carlos, Ribeirãon Preto, Venice, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lausanne, Oldenburg). From his first year at Southampton he has been involved with the Southampton Electrochemistry Summer School, initially as a demonstrator and now as a lecturer and the main organiser.
He has been teaching Physical Chemistry (in particular kinetics and electrochemistry) at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for over twenty years. He was Head of Teaching for Physical Chemistry (2002 – 2007) and School Examination Officer (2005 – 2010).