About
Richard Tuckett is Professor of Chemical Physics and Director of the 1st year Undergraduate Class in the School of Chemistry.
Richard has published over 120 research and review papers in the international literature of chemical physics / physical chemistry. He has received major grants from EPSRC and STFC research councils, the Royal Society, and the EU.
Richard is a committed teacher of quantitative physical chemistry to all levels of the Undergraduate M Sci 4-year Masters Course in Chemistry.
Qualifications
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Fellow, Institute of Physics, 2011
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Professor of Chemical Physics, University of Birmingham, 2005
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D Sc, University of Birmingham, 2001
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Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2001
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Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2001
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Reader in Chemical Physics, 1998
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Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, 1993
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Lecturer, University of Birmingham, 1986
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MA, PhD, University of Cambridge, 1979
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BA (Hons), 1st class, University of Cambridge, 1975
Biography
Richard Tuckett qualified with a BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Cambridge in the late 1970s. His PhD was on the Use and Development of a SISAM interferometer operating in the near-infrared to study electronic spectra of free radicals in the gas phase. He was awarded a PostDoctoral Fellowship by the SERC, and he chose to work with Professor Alan Carrington, FRS, in the Department of Chemistry at University of Southampton. There, he built a crossed supersonic beam / electron beam apparatus to study the electronic spectra of cold molecular ions. He continued this work with funding from a College Research Fellowship from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1980 to 1983. He was awarded an SERC Advanced Fellowship in 1983.
He moved to Birmingham in 1985, and was appointed to the Staff in 1986. He has had two extended periods of Study Leave whilst at Birmingham; Stanford USA (1993) and ETH Zurich Switzerland (2006). His main research areas now are in the field of vacuum-ultraviolet spectroscopy and unimolecular dynamics of polyatomic gas-phase molecules, especially of long-lived greenhouse gases. He uses synchrotron radiation from national sources for these studies, and currently is a dedicated user of the Swiss Light Source (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland). He is Director of the 1st year Undergraduate Class in the School of Chemistry, and has overall pastoral responsibility for the Induction and Welfare of new students to this degree programme.
Teaching
Teaching Programmes
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MSci (Chemistry) Year 4 course on Advanced Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics
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MSci (Chemistry) Year 3 courses on Electronic Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Chemistry
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M Sci (Chemistry) Year 1 courses on Elementary Maths, Maths for the Physical Sciences, and Chemical Thermodynamics
Postgraduate supervision
Richard has supervised ca. 20 students through to successful MSc and PhD degrees. Currently, he has one research student and two undergraduate project students.
Research
RESEARCH THEMES
Vacuum-UV spectroscopy ; synchrotron radiation ; coincidence and imaging techniques ; polyatomic molecules ; ion-pair formation ; high-resolution thermochemistry ; threshold photoelectron techniques.
Other activities
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Treasurer, Cotteridge Quaker Meeting
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Sailing Secretary, Barnt Green Sailing Club
Publications
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Simpson, M.J. and Tuckett, R.P. (2011), Vacuum-UV negative photoion spectroscopy of gas-phase polyatomic molecules, Int. Rev. Phys. Chem., to be published October 2011, Int. J. Phys. Chem. (2011) 30, 197-273. DOI: 10.1080/0144235X.2011.581000
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Rogers, N.J., Simpson, M.J., Tuckett, R.P., Latimer, C. and Dunn, K.F. (2010), Vacuum-UV negative photoion spectroscopy of CH4, Mol. Phys., 108: 895-904, DOI : 10.1080/00268970903535483
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Simpson, M.J., Tuckett, R.P., Dunn, K.F., Hunniford, C.A. and Latimer, C.J. (2009), Vacuum-UV negative photoion spectroscopy of CF3Cl, CF3Br and CF3I, 130, 194302-1 to 194302-11, DOI : 10.1063/1.3137103
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Simpson, M.J., Tuckett, R.P., Dunn, K.F., Hunniford, C.A., Latimer, C.J. and Scully, S.W.J. (2008), Vacuum-UV negative photoion spectroscopy of SF5CF3, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 124315-1 to 124315-10, DOI: 10.1063/1.2894869
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Mikhailov, V.A., Parkes, M.A., Simpson, M.J., Tuckett, R.P. and Mayhew, C.A. (2008), Selected ion flow tube ion-molecule reactions of monochloroethene, trichloroethene and tetrachloroethene : comparison with TPEPICO data, J. Phys. Chem. A., 112, 9012-9022, DOI : 10.1021/jp80443v
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Chim, R.Y.L., Cicman, P., Märk, T.D., Mayhew, C.A., Scheier, P., and Tuckett, R.P. (2007), Vacuum-UV and electron dissociative ionisation studies of SF5Cl, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 261, 208-217, DOI : 10.1016/j.ijms.2006.09.02