Stewart F. Parker is a British scientist specialising in vibrational spectroscopy and

catalysis Catalysis () is the process of increasing the rate of a chemical reaction by adding a substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed in the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recyc ...

. He works at the

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and is an Honorary Professor in the school of Chemistry at the

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Career

Parker gained his PhD at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

following this with postdoctoral research at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

. He worked for the Analytical Division of the

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before moving to the ISIS Facility in 1993. He has an Individual Merit award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, which was renewed in 2019.

Select publications

*Parker, S. F. Horton, K. E. and Tomkinson, J. 1995. ''The TFXA user guide''. Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Council. *Mitchell, P. C. H, Parker, S. F., Ramirez-Cuesta, J. and Tomkinson, J. 2005. ''Vibrational Spectroscopy with Neutrons With Applications in Chemistry, Biology, Materials Science and Catalysis'' (Series on Neutron Techniques and Applications: Volume 3) . *Parker, S. F., Ramirez-Cuesta, A. J., and Daemen, L. 2018. "Vibrational spectroscopy with neutrons: Recent developments", ''Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy'' 190. 518-523. *Parker, S. F., Mukhopadhyay, S., Jiménez‐Ruiz, M., and ALbers, P. W. 2019. "Adsorbed States of Hydrogen on Platinum: A New Perspective". ''Chemistry: A European Journal'' 25(26), 6496-6499. .

References

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