
2 minutes with Shefali Saxena, Chemistry PHD student
Shefali describes King's in three words and chats about her research.
The Department of Chemistry occupies research laboratories Britannia House on Guy’s Campus, with state-of-the art analytical and spectroscopic facilities close at hand and further analytical and synthetic facilities at the Waterloo and St Thomas’ Hospital campuses.
Chemistry research spans the Faculties of Natural & Mathematical Sciences, and Life Sciences & Medicine, and broadly ranges from computational and physical chemistry to chemical biology, medical imaging and materials science. Additional strengths are in analytical chemistry and spectroscopy, metallochemistry, nanoparticle chemistry and biology and drug discovery.
Chemistry is also a major component in a number of prestigious Centres based at King’s such as the Cancer Research UK/EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre, Wellcome/EPSRC Medical Engineering Centre, and BHF Centre of Excellence.
Current number of academic staff: 15 academic staff and a number of affiliate academic staff across the College.
Head of group: Prof Martin Ulmschneider
Students are encouraged to begin their research in October so as to attend the introductory courses, but students can also register at a further three registration points during the academic cycle (January, April and July).
For information about the exciting research in the chemistry department please see our research pages: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/chemistry/research
King's Health Partners, including Guy’s and St Thomas', King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts; Crick Institute.
UK Tuition Fees 2022/23
Full-time tuition fees: £6,120 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £3,060 per year
International Tuition Fees 2022/23
Full-time tuition fees: £26,640 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £13,320 per year
UK Tuition Fees 2023/24
Full-time tuition fees: £6,540 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £3,270 per year
International Tuition Fees 2023/24
Full-time tuition fees: £28,260 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £14,130 per year
These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King's terms and conditions.
Research in the Department of Chemistry is based in Britannia House (a pharmaceutical industry grade research facility). In addition to labs equipped for synthetic chemistry, biochemistry and tissue culture, individual research groups have specialist kit (e.g. laser excitation and microwave spectroscopy) as well as access to King’s excellent core research facilities:
Postgraduate students are encouraged to mix with other scientists, both fellow students and beyond, at events varying from Departmental seminars to international conferences. These offer you the chance to present and discuss your work at many levels make valuable network connections.
The nature of the research in the Department of Chemistry is highly cross-disciplinary and making contacts and exchanging ideas form a core part of this approach to science.
Research projects may be co-supervised by staff from different Research Divisions and Departments to support collaboration and application of chemical innovation especially in medicine and biology.
Research at the Aldous Group focuses on thermoelectrochemistry and biomass utilisation.
Our research focuses on understanding and exploiting the natural product biosynthesis, from the conditions under which biosynthetic pathways are expressed to elucidating the mechanisms of the enzymes involved, in pursuit of novel compounds and biocatalysts.
The Booth group works at the interface of Chemistry and Biology to elucidate the mechanisms by which proteins fold, assemble and communicate within biological membranes.
The Borysik group use native mass spectrometry (MS) ion mobility MS and hydrogen-deuterium exchange MS to study the conformations and dynamics of important biomolecules in order to understand their function.
Research in the Brogan Group aims to develop new enzyme-based biotechnologies to help us move to a more sustainable, renewable, economy.
The Cobb Group has developed a number of new asymmetric reactions, mainly focusing on the chemistry of the nitro or sulfone groups.
Find out about research in the Diez-Perez Group.
The Eggert Group uses chemical and cell biology approaches to study cytokinesis at the process, pathway, protein and metabolite levels.
Graeme Hogarth is an inorganic chemist with a broad range of interests focused on molecular transition metal chemistry.
The Isaacson group uses biophysical techniques, with a focus on NMR spectroscopy, to determine macromolecular structure and interactions of molecules relevant to health and disease.
Research in the Müller lab focuses on using synthetic protein chemistry to elucidate how proteins are controlled by post-translational modifications.
The Musgrave Group looks into Metallopolymers and Metal-Metal Bonding
Eamonn Reading's group focuses on understanding structure-dynamics-function relationships of membrane proteins
The Sanz group looks at how biomolecular conformation plays a fundamental role in biological processes such as molecular recognition.
The Ulmschneider group studies how peptides and proteins interact with cellular membranes and carry out their biological functions.
The Wallace Group builds artificial mimics of cell membranes; both to improve our understanding of membrane biology, and to engineer new devices inspired by biology.
UK Tuition Fees 2022/23
Full-time tuition fees: £6,120 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £3,060 per year
International Tuition Fees 2022/23
Full-time tuition fees: £26,640 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £13,320 per year
UK Tuition Fees 2023/24
Full-time tuition fees: £6,540 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £3,270 per year
International Tuition Fees 2023/24
Full-time tuition fees: £28,260 per year
Part-time tuition fees: £14,130 per year
These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King's terms and conditions.
Research in the Department of Chemistry is based in Britannia House (a pharmaceutical industry grade research facility). In addition to labs equipped for synthetic chemistry, biochemistry and tissue culture, individual research groups have specialist kit (e.g. laser excitation and microwave spectroscopy) as well as access to King’s excellent core research facilities:
Postgraduate students are encouraged to mix with other scientists, both fellow students and beyond, at events varying from Departmental seminars to international conferences. These offer you the chance to present and discuss your work at many levels make valuable network connections.
The nature of the research in the Department of Chemistry is highly cross-disciplinary and making contacts and exchanging ideas form a core part of this approach to science.
Research projects may be co-supervised by staff from different Research Divisions and Departments to support collaboration and application of chemical innovation especially in medicine and biology.
Research at the Aldous Group focuses on thermoelectrochemistry and biomass utilisation.
Our research focuses on understanding and exploiting the natural product biosynthesis, from the conditions under which biosynthetic pathways are expressed to elucidating the mechanisms of the enzymes involved, in pursuit of novel compounds and biocatalysts.
The Booth group works at the interface of Chemistry and Biology to elucidate the mechanisms by which proteins fold, assemble and communicate within biological membranes.
The Borysik group use native mass spectrometry (MS) ion mobility MS and hydrogen-deuterium exchange MS to study the conformations and dynamics of important biomolecules in order to understand their function.
Research in the Brogan Group aims to develop new enzyme-based biotechnologies to help us move to a more sustainable, renewable, economy.
The Cobb Group has developed a number of new asymmetric reactions, mainly focusing on the chemistry of the nitro or sulfone groups.
Find out about research in the Diez-Perez Group.
The Eggert Group uses chemical and cell biology approaches to study cytokinesis at the process, pathway, protein and metabolite levels.
Graeme Hogarth is an inorganic chemist with a broad range of interests focused on molecular transition metal chemistry.
The Isaacson group uses biophysical techniques, with a focus on NMR spectroscopy, to determine macromolecular structure and interactions of molecules relevant to health and disease.
Research in the Müller lab focuses on using synthetic protein chemistry to elucidate how proteins are controlled by post-translational modifications.
The Musgrave Group looks into Metallopolymers and Metal-Metal Bonding
Eamonn Reading's group focuses on understanding structure-dynamics-function relationships of membrane proteins
The Sanz group looks at how biomolecular conformation plays a fundamental role in biological processes such as molecular recognition.
The Ulmschneider group studies how peptides and proteins interact with cellular membranes and carry out their biological functions.
The Wallace Group builds artificial mimics of cell membranes; both to improve our understanding of membrane biology, and to engineer new devices inspired by biology.
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