Department of Chemistry

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Postgraduate Research in Chemistry at Cambridge

Areas of Research

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Whatever your field of interest, you will find internationally competitive research in the Department.

We have research groups in all major areas of chemistry:

  • Synthetic chemistry (organic and inorganic)
  • Chemical biology
  • Physical and biophysical chemistry
  • Theoretical and computational chemistry
  • New materials

The Department has the highest rating (5*) in the Government's Research Assessment Exercise and consistently tops the league tables for research in chemistry in Europe.

Click here to see a more detailed listing of research areas (with links to individual supervisors' home pages) or a listing of research centres and spin-off companies associated with the Department.


Did you know?In their most recent survey, the Institute for Scientific Information ranked the Chemistry Department no. 1 in Europe for citations. Our researchers had produced more than 4,200 papers in the past ten years and these have been cited more than 48,000 times by other research groups.