Professor Stephen Wimperis
Steve was born in Warwickshire, England and was educated at Warwick School and Worcester College, Oxford, doing his Chemistry Part II in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory (“PCL”) with Ray Freeman. He did his doctorate in Lausanne with Geoffrey Bodenhausen and then moved to Cambridge on a two-year personal postdoctoral fellowship, where he collaborated with both Ray Freeman and James Keeler. He held a fixed-term Lectureship in Manchester for a year before being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and moving back to Oxford and the PCL.
In 1999, Steve took up his first real academic job in Exeter, where he was Reader in Magnetic Resonance until the Department of Chemistry was closed rather abruptly in 2005. He then moved to his present position in Glasgow.
Steve has worked on a wide range of topics in the NMR field, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in vivo NMR spectroscopy, and solution-state NMR of both small and large (bio)molecules. Since the late 1990s, his research interests have mostly been concerned with the development and application of novel solid-state NMR methods. He has published more than 100 papers.
Outside the lab, Steve is a keen hill-walker (138 Munros and 15 Corbetts “bagged” so far), enjoys nosing around historic and prehistoric ruins, and is rarely happier than when he is sharing good food and an excellent bottle of red wine with one or two close friends.
Personal Details
Name: Stephen Wimperis
Address: Department of Chemistry and WestCHEM, Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
Telephone: (0)141 330 8284
Career
1980-84 Worcester College, University of Oxford
BA (Honours) in Natural Science (Chemistry) 1984 Class II
Research 1983-84 in the laboratory of Professor R. Freeman F.R.S.
1985-88 Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Doctorat ès Sciences 1988
Research in the laboratory of Professor G. Bodenhausen.
Doctoral thesis title: Relaxation-Allowed Coherence Transfer and Broadband Multiple-Pulse Techniques in NMR Spectroscopy.
1988-1990 University of Cambridge
SERC Personal Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Fellow of Darwin College
1990-1991 University of Manchester
Fixed-term Lecturer in Physical Chemistry
1991-1999 University of Oxford
Royal Society University Research Fellow
1993-96 R. J. P. Williams Research Fellow of Wadham College
Associate Member of the Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences
1999-2005 University of Exeter
Reader in Magnetic Resonance
2003-04 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow
2006-20?? University of Glasgow
2006-07 Reader
2007-?? Professor of Magnetic Resonance
