I was born in Frechen, Germany, but have lived and worked in the UK for quite a while now. I obtained my BSc in Chemistry and Economics from Keele University (UK), and stayed on to work with Jim Howell and Paul Yates towards a PhD (completed in 2001). After postdoctoral research with Rob Deeth at the University of Warwick until 2003, I worked as a postdoc on projects with Guy Orpen, Jeremy Harvey and Guy Lloyd-Jones at the University of Bristol before gaining an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (October 2007). My independent research at Bristol is in computational inorganic chemistry and involves mechanistic studies of catalysis and the development of knowledge bases

Computational Inorganic Chemistry

McMullin, C, Jover, J, Harvey, J & Fey, N, 2010, ‘Accurate modeling of Pd(0) + PhX oxidative addition kinetics’. Dalton Transactions, vol 39., pp. 10833 - 10836 Fey, N, Tsipis, A, Harris, S, Harvey, J, Orpen, A & Mansson, R, 2006, ‘Development of a ligand knowledge base, Part 1: computational descriptors for phosphorus donor ligands’. Chemistry: A European Journal, vol 12 (1)., pp. 291 - 302 Jover, J, Fey, N, Harvey, J, Lloyd-Jones, G, Orpen, A, Owen-Smith, G, Murray, P, Hose, D, Osborne, R & Purdie, M, 2010, ‘Expansion of the ligand knowledge base for monodentate P-donor ligands (LKB-P)’. Organometallics, vol 29., pp. 6245 - 6258 Pickup, OJS, Khazal, I, Smith, EJ, Whitwood, AC, Lynam, JM, Bolaky, K, King, TC, Rawe, BW & Fey, N, 2014, ‘Computational Discovery of Stable Transition-Metal Vinylidene Complexes’. Organometallics, vol 33., pp. 1751-1761 Fey, N, Garland, M, Hopewell, JP, McMullin, CL, Mastroianni, S, Orpen, AG & Pringle, PG, 2012, ‘Stable Fluorophosphines: Predicted and Realized Ligands for Catalysis’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 51., pp. 118-122