Summer Research Scholarships provide promising students with experience of research work. This is particularly useful to students considering undertaking postgraduate research towards a higher degree.

The scholarships provide contact with distinguished researchers and enable students to use facilities and materials for research that may not be readily available elsewhere. They offer a challenging environment in which students have an opportunity to evaluate for themselves, and to demonstrate to others, their potential for research work.

Professor A F Hill: Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry of the Transition metals, including applications to catalysis; Transition metal and main-group cluster chemistry and the chemistry of metal-carbon multiple bonds, with applications to organic synthesis. Alkynyl thioether macrocycle synthesis. Bioinorganic chemistry of sulfur ligated metalloenzymes, 'naked' carbon 'Cx' ligands. (a.hill@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor M G Humphrey: Synthesis, structure and bonding, and reactivity of inorganic, organometallic and organic molecules, with a current focus on dendrimers and clusters. Molecular materials chemistry, with a current focus on electrochemical and nonlinear optical properties. (mark.humphrey@anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Dr G Salem: Design, synthesis, resolution and coordination chemistry of multidentate ligands containing arsenic, nitrogen and/or phosphorus donor atoms, utilization of transition metal based complexes containing these ligands as catalysts in the asymmetric synthesis of optically pure fine chemicals. (geoff.salem9@anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor R L Withers: Crystal chemistry: structural relationships, phase transitions and wide range, non-stoichiometric solid-solutions. Phyical properties, in particular dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties. Synthesis, crystal growth, characterization, electron microscopy, group theory and structure refinement (withers@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor M G Banwell: Synthesis and mechanism: application of strained organic molecules and reactive intermediates to the development of new synthetic methodologies; total synthesis of biologically-active natural products and their congeners; utilisation of microbial oxidation products in chemical synthesis; molecular basis of action of anti-mitotic drugs. (mgb@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Dr R Barrow: Organic chemistry of natural systems: work encompasses the areas of chemical ecology, bio-prospecting, and organic synthesis. It involves: isolation and structural identification of bioactive molecules from fungi, plants, and insects; the synthesis of molecules for the development of structural activity relationships in target systems; and the study of the ecological relationships of chemicals in biological systems. (rab@anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor C J Easton: Biochemical reactions and molecular recognition: amino acid, peptide and lipid synthesis and metabolism; enzyme catalysis and inhibition; design and synthesis of molecular hosts; catalysis and kinetic resolution with host-guest complexes; resins and adhesives chemistry. (easton@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Dr M D McLeod: Synthesis and catalysis: the total synthesis of anti-cancer and anti-fungal marine natural products and their analogues; the synthesis and biological evaluation of neuro-active alkaloid analogues; the development of catalytic asymmetric reactions for the synthesis of organic building blocks with high selectivity; and the development of genetically engineered enzymes for the for the synthesis of drug metabolites with application to sports drug testing. (m.mcleod@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Assoc Professor M S Sherburn: Organic synthesis, methodology and host-guest chemistry: Total synthesis of natural products utilising domino reactions; preparation of potential new antitumour agents and anti-Alzheimers drugs; construction and properties of molecules of fundamental importance; development of new methods to predict and control the stereochemical outcome of reactions; design and preparation of synthetic hosts for encapsulation, enantiomer recognition and catalysis. (sherburn@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Dr C. Richardson: Functional Molecules and Materials: The design and synthesis of extended ordered solids with applications in bionanotechnology and catalysis; use of dynamic covalent chemistry with supramolecular considerations to produce smart molecules with designed function; development of new multi-component reactions for efficient synthesis of heterocyclic molecules. (crichardson@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Dr M A Keniry: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. NMR applications to structure and function of proteins and DNA. NMR techniques and methodology. (max@rsc.anu.edu.au)

Professor D L Ollis: Protein crystallography and engineering. Directed evolution is used to evolve new and useful enzymes. These new enzymes are of considerable utility and provide ideal tools to better understand the nature of catalysis. The intricate relationship between structure and function of native and mutant enzymes is elucidated using X-ray crystallography and other tools. (ollis@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor G Otting: New techniques in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Protein structure determinations by NMR. Development of NMR and labelling techniques that provide quick access to structural and functional information. (go@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor M A Collins: Chemical physics, dynamics. Development of molecular potential energy surfaces, and the computational dynamics of chemical reactions and molecular motion. Development of methods to approximate ab initio electronic energies by molecular fragmentation. (collins@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Dr M L Coote: Computational quantum chemistry, polymer chemistry. Use of computational quantum chemistry to study the mechanism and kinetics of chemical reactions. Theoretical studies of radical reactivity and thermochemistry. Understanding and controlling free-radical polymerization. (mcoote@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor D J Evans: Statistical mechanics of dense fluids. Computer simulations of viscous flow and heat flow in molecular liquids. Molecular basis of rheology. Chaos as the basis of statistical mechanics. (evans@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor P M W Gill: Electronic structure theory, using both density functional methods and wavefunction methods. The coulomb problem, the exchange problem, the correlation problem, combinatorial problems. Development of new quantum chemistry models. Software implementation within the Q-Chem program. Applications of new methods to important problems in chemistry and biochemistry. (pgill@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor E R Krausz: Photo-energetics, photo-transformations and spectroscopy using lasers. Absorption, luminescence, excitation, and Raman techniques combined as a multi-dimensional approach. Stark and Zeeman probes of critical chemical systems. Non-linear effects and laser selective techniques. Exploring and revealing fundamental photo-transformations in photosynthetic reaction centers and the creation of new solar molecular energy technologies. (krausz@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Assoc. Professor R. J. Pace: Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis. Electron paramagnetic spectroscopy of redox centers in natural photosystems, particularly the water oxidising Mn cluster in Photosystem II and the primary electron acceptor groups in this enzyme. Computational chemical (with Prof. R Stranger) studies on these systems and model complexes related to their function. (ron.pace@anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Assoc. Professor E M Sevick: Physics of single polymer chains, force measurements on polymers and polymers at interfaces, optical tweezers for stretching polymers/biopolymers and for measuring microrheological response of fluids and colloidal forces, theoretical and computer simulation methods for studying polymers at the molecular level. (sevick@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor Rob Stranger: We make use of quantum chemical methods, primarily Density Functional Theory (DFT), to explore the molecular structure, bonding and energetics of inorganic, bioinorganic and organometallic compounds, particularly those involving transition metal ions. With the development of very fast desktop computers and highly efficient computer algorithms in recent years, DFT has become an extremely powerful and reliable theoretical technique, not only for rationalizing the structures and properties of known chemical systems but also for exploring new or unknown chemistry. In particular, it is ideally suited to the study of transition metal systems, including their magnetic and spectroscopic properties. Transition metal ions also play a crucial role in a number of important industrial and biological processes, and increasingly DFT is becoming an indispensable theoretical tool to probe the mechanistic and energetic aspects underlying these processes. (rob.stranger@anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor T R Welberry: X-ray diffraction and theoretical studies of disordered materials. Computer simulation and modelling, with particular interest in flexible organic molecules, polymorphism in pharmaceuticals, solid-state inorganic materials and quasi-crystals. (welberry@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here

Professor J W White: Solid state molecular science. Chemical synthesis of inorganic and polymeric films, X-ray and neutron scattering to make and characterise new self assembled structures; kinetics and mechanism of their self assembly; molecular and protein template directed zeolite synthesis from gels and at interfaces, Biomineralisation, photochemical hydrogen production from water and bioremediation. Controlled protein denaturation and renaturation - the molten globular state, biomineralisation and the response of molecular assemblies to mechanical and electrical stress. The structure of surfactant monolayers at the air-water interface, emulsions and the viscoelasticity of oil-water interface monomolecular films is in progress. (jww@rsc.anu.edu.au) Projects for 09/10 here