Dr Georgia Orton MChem, PhD

Dr Georgia Orton

School of Chemistry
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Georgia Orton's research interests span i) the synthesis of framework materials and air-sensitive molecules, ii) host-guest chemistry, and iii) understanding structure and reactivity via crystallography and spectroelectrochemistry.

Orton Lab website

Qualifications

  • PhD, King's College London, 2016
  • MChem, University of Sheffield, 2015

Biography

Georgia completed her MChem (Europe) at the University of Sheffield in 2015, including a year at The University of Bordeaux. Following this, she joined the Hogarth group at King’s College London for a PhD focusing on producing biomimics of the iron-only hydrogenase enzyme as electrocatalysts for hydrogen oxidation. In 2019, Georgia joined the Champness group, initially in Nottingham and later in Birmingham, to work on metal-organic frameworks for mechanistic studies of reactions within frameworks.

In October 2023 Georgia took up a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. Her current research focuses on reactivity of reticular materials, and the design and synthesis of unusual metal-organic molecules and materials.