Professor Sarre obtained his B.Sc. in Chemical Physics in 1972 from Sussex University. After a year as Research Associate at Coimbra University Portugal, he obtained his PhD in laser spectroscopy from Southampton University in 1976. He then held SERC and Hartley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowships, and in 1978 was appointed Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. In 1986-87 he held a Nuffield Foundation Research Fellowship. Promotion to Reader in Chemical Physics followed in 1988. During the period 1989-94 he was Editor of Faraday Transactions, Discussions and Symposia and in 1990 received the Corday Morgan Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1994, he was promoted to Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Astrophysics. Professor Sarre was awarded the Morino Foundation Japanese Lecture Fellowship in 1996 and the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award in 1997. He held the positions of Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chairman of the Astrophysical Chemistry Group. In 1999 he was appointed Visiting Astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory and was awarded a Royal Society Kan Tong Po Visiting Professorship in Hong Kong. He served as Chair of the UK Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) Consortium, as a Director of the SALT Foundation (Pty) Ltd. from 2005 to 2009, and as a member of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Board. He was a member of the ASTRONET Task Force for European Laboratory Astrophysics and Chair of its working group. In 2014 he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship which he held mostly at Leiden Observatory, and he is now Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Astrophysics at The University of Nottingham.

ZHAO, T.Q., LI, Q., LIU, B.S., GOVER, R.K.E., SARRE, P.J. and CHEUNG, A. S.-C., 2016. Laboratory astrochemistry: catalytic conversion of acetylene to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons over SiC grains Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 3489 - 3496 BAILEY, M., VAN LOON, J. TH., FARHANG, A., JAVADI, A., KHOSROSHAHI, H.G., SARRE, P.J. and SMITH, K.T., 2016. Probing the Local Bubble with diffuse interstellar bands. I. Project overview and southern hemisphere survey Astronomy & Astrophysics. 585, 12-24 EVANS, A., GEHRZ, R. D., WOODWARD, C. E., SARRE, P. J., VAN LOON, J. T., HELTON, L. A., STARRFIELD, S. and EYRES, S. P. S., 2016. CK Vul: a smorgasbord of hydrocarbons rules out a 1670 nova (and much else besides) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 457(3), 2871-2876 BURAGOHAIN, M., PATHAK, A., SARRE, P.J., ONAKA, T. and SAKON, I., 2016. Mid-infrared vibrational study of deuterium-containing PAH variants Planetary and Space Science. 133C, 97-106 CANDIAN, A. and SARRE, P.J., 2015. The 11.2?μm emission of PAHs in astrophysical objects Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 448(3), 2960-2970 MARSHALL, C.M.M., KRELOWSKI, J. and SARRE, P.J., 2015. The 6614 diffuse interstellar absorption band: evidence for internal excitation of the carrier: 453 (4): 3912-3917doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1838 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 453(4), 3912-3917 BURAGOHAIN, M., PATHAK, A., SARRE, P.J., ONAKA, T. and SAKON, I., 2015. Theoretical study of deuteronated PAHs as carriers for IR emission features in the ISM Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454(1), 201-212 BAILEY, M., VAN LOON, J.TH., SARRE, P.J. and BECKMAN, J.E., 2015. Mapping atomic and diffuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454(4), 4013-4026 CANDIAN, A., SARRE, P.J. and TIELENS, A.G.G.M., 2014. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Armchair Edges and the 12.7 μm Band Astrophysical Journal Letters. 791(1), L10 (6pp) SMITH, K.T., FOSSEY, S.J, CORDINER, M.A., SARRE, P.J., SMITH, A.M., BELL, T.A. and VITI, S., 2013. Small-scale structure in the interstellar medium: time-varying interstellar absorption towards κ Velorum Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 429, 939–953 CORDINER, M.A., FOSSEY, S.J., SMITH, A.M. and SARRE, P.J., 2013. Small-scale structure of the interstellar medium towards ρ Oph stars: diffuse band observations Astrophysical Journal Letters. 764, L10-L14 TIAN, M., LIU, B., HAMMONDS, M., WANG, N., SARRE, P.J. and CHEUNG, A.S.-C., 2013. Catalytic conversion of acetylene to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) over particles of pyroxene and alumina Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 371(1994), 20110590 ROBERTS, K.R.G., SMITH, K.T. and SARRE, P.J., 2012. Detection of C60 in embedded young stellar objects, a Herbig Ae/Be star and an unusual post‐asymptotic giant branch star Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 421(4), 3277-3285 TIAN, M., LIU, B.S., HAMMONDS, M., WANG, N., SARRE, P. J. and CHEUNG, A.S.-C., 2012. Formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from acetylene over nanosized olivine-type silicates Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(18), 6603–6610 CANDIAN, A., KERR, T.H., SONG, I.-O., MCCOMBIE, J. and SARRE, P.J., 2012. Spatial distribution and interpretation of the 3.3 μm PAH emission band of the Red Rectangle Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 426(1), 389-397 CORDINER, M.A., COX, N.L.J., EVANS, C.J., TRUNDLE, C., SMITH, K.T., SARRE, P.J. and GORDON, K.D., 2011. A survey of diffuse interstellar bands in the Andromeda Galaxy: optical spectroscopy of M31 OB stars Astrophysical Journal. 726(1), 39-50 GARKUSHA, I, FULARA, J, MAIER, J.P. and SARRE, P.J., 2011. Electronic Absorption Spectra of Protonated Pyrene and Coronene in Neon Matrices Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 115(40), 10972-10978 COX, N.L.J., EHRENFREUND, P., FOING, B.H., D’HENDECOURT, L., SALAMA, F. and SARRE, P.J., 2011. Linear and circular spectropolarimetry of diffuse interstellar bands Astronomy & Astrophysics. 531, A25, 1-19 HAMMONDS, M., PATHAK, A., CANDIAN, A. and SARRE, P.J., 2010. Spectroscopy of protonated and deprotonated PAHs In: PAHs and the Universe: A symposium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the PAH hypothesis, May 31st - June 4th 2010 TOULOUSE, France. 373-379, EAS Publications Series vol. 46, 2011 VAN LOON, J. T., SMITH, K. T., MCDONALD, I., SARRE, P. J., FOSSEY, S. J. and SHARP, R. G., 2009. Detailed maps of interstellar clouds in front of Omega Centauri: small-scale structures in the Galactic disc-halo interface Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. VOL 399(NUMBER 1), 195-208 HAMMONDS, M., PATHAK, A. and SARRE, P.J., 2009. TD-DFT calculations of electronic spectra of hydrogenated protonated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules: implications for the origin of the diffuse interstellar bands? Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(22), 4458-4464 CORDINER, M. A., SMITH, K. T., COX, N. L. J., EVANS, C. J., HUNTER, I., PRZYBILLA, N., BRESOLIN, F. and SARRE, P. J., 2008. Diffuse interstellar bands in M33 Astronomy and Astrophysics. 492(1), L5-L8 ELLISON, S.L., YORK, B.A., MURPHY, M.T., ZYCH, B.J., SMITH, A.M. and SARRE, P.J., 2008. Diffuse interstellar bands in z < 0.6 Ca II absorbers Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 383(1), L30-L34 PATHAK, A. and SARRE, P.J., 2008. Protonated PAHs as carriers of diffuse interstellar bands Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 391(1), L10-L14 SARRE, P.J., 2008. Organic compounds as carriers of the diffuse interstellar bands Organic Matter in Space, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposium, Volume 251. 49-56