Newcastle University

Alex Jones

• Research Fellow Photon Science Institute, The University of Manchester
• Email: Alex.Jones-2@manchester.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)161 306 5759
• John Garside Building-G.028, Photon Science Institute, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL

 

Alex received a first class MChem from the Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester (2004), after which he was awarded a personal Colt Foundation PhD Fellowship (2004). He was a BBSRC research associate then Colt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, and is currently an independent Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.

Broadly, our work is concerned with the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and (bio)molecules. Using various time resolved (femtoseconds – seconds), in-house built laser spectroscopy and magnetic resonance / perturbation techniques, we investigate the photochemical mechanism of a broad range of photoreceptor proteins from plants, bacteria, insects and mammals. We also develop bio-inspired molecular photoswitches, photocatalysts and light responsive smart materials.