Kenneth David Maclean Harris#
| Membership Number: | 3650 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chemy/staff/harris.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 – present Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University, Wales [also Head of Physical Chemistry (since 2013) and Head of Materials Chemistry (2003–2012)]
- 1995 – 2003 Professor of Structural Chemistry, University of Birmingham, England
- 1993 – 1995 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University College London, England
- 1989 – 1993 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (this position was taken up in February 1989 directly after the PhD degree)
- Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship (1995/96) and several appointments as Visiting Professor at institutions in Japan, France, Spain and Taiwan
Fields of Scholarship
- Physical Chemistry of Solids
- Development and application of new strategies and techniques for structure determination from powder X-ray diffraction data
- Fundamentals of crystallization processes and polymorphism
- Aperiodic materials (incommensurate materials and quasicrystals)
- Solid-state NMR spectroscopy, particularly the development of new techniques for in-situ studies of chemical processes
- Fundamentals of solid inclusion compounds: incommensurate structures and dynamic properties
- Controlling crystal growth and transport processes in solid inclusion compounds
- Structural design of organic materials ("crystal engineering")
- Molecular motion, disorder and phase transitions in crystalline solids
- Fundamentals and applications of X-ray dichroism and X-ray birefringence
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW)
- 2008 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- 2007/8 Tilden Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- 2001 Structural Chemistry Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- 1999 Corday-Morgan Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- 1997 Philips Prize in Physical Crystallography (British Crystallographic Association and Institute of Physics)
- 1996 Marlow Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- 1991 Meldola Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)
