Neil Withers
I joined Chemistry World in June 2012 after spending four years as an associate editor on Nature Chemistry.
This is my second stint at the Royal Society of Chemistry, having started work here in July 2004 just a week after my PhD viva! I worked in a variety of roles in my first four years at the RSC, from a technical editor on Journals of Materials Chemistry and Soft Matter to editor of Chemical Technology.
I commission and edit the features in Chemistry World, and contribute to the other areas of the magazine as need arises. I have a PhD in solid-state inorganic chemistry from the University of Durham, where I also did a four-year chemistry degree.
NewsThe Cambridge Structural Database hits one million structures
Warning! Contains extreme crystallography
OpinionHave you had enough of the periodic table yet?
There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste
ArticleCelebrating the periodic table
Peter Wothers tells us about the first published version of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, currently on show in Cambridge
OpinionWho wants to live forever?
How many of us will be healthy enough to ride off into the golden sunset of a long retirement?
PodcastIndium tin oxide, ITO
Swipe, tap, pinch, poke and prod – Neil Withers gets hands on with touchscreen material indium tin oxide
OpinionPowers of prediction
If the terrifyingly difficult problem of protein folding is getting closer to a solution, what other intractable problems are ripe for answering?
PodcastCinnarizine (stugeron)
Neil Withers relives a choppy (and messy) sea voyage to bring us the science of anti-seasickness drug cinnarizine
OpinionFrom fatigue to factory
MOFs and flexible electronics have grabbed headlines and will soon be on the shelves
