Andrew Orr-Ewing
Introduction
Andrew John Orr-Ewing FRS FRSC is a physical chemist and Professor at the University of Bristol who has made significant contributions to the study of fundamental mechanisms of chemical reactions in both the gas and liquid phases. He is recognized internationally for his use of ultrafast laser spectroscopy to observe the effects of liquid solvents on molecular reaction and photodissociation dynamics.
Education
Orr-Ewing was educated at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry in 1991 supervised by Gus Hancock.
Research and career
After two years as a postdoctoral researcher with Richard Zare at Stanford University, he returned to the United Kingdom as the Royal Society Elizabeth Challenor Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where he has remained since.
Awards and honours
His research achievements have been recognized by the Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1994), Marlow Medal and Prize (1999), and Tilden Prize (2009) of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the RSC’s awards in Optical Spectroscopy (2002) and Chemical Dynamics (2014), a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2005), and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2006-11). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.