Science Board members

Professor Tony Ryan

Tony Ryan is the Pro Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield.

Prior to this he was ICI Professor of Physical Chemistry & Director of the Polymer Centre (2002-2008), Head of the Department of Chemistry (1999-2003) and has been The Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield since 1997. Between 1990 and 1997 he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and the Reader in Polymer Science and Technology at the Manchester Materials Science Centre, UMIST, Manchester. From 1995 to 2001 he was seconded part-time to the CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory.

Tony's main contribution to the field has been the development and application of the techniques of time-resolved structural tools to polymers. This work was the subject of prizes in 1990 by the Plastics and Rubber Institute, in 1992, 1999 and 2003 from the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 1999 from the Polymer Processing Society.

He is actively involved in public understanding of science work and this culminated in his appointment as the Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer for 2002. He was the appointed the first EPSRC media fellow and made an OBE in 2005 for services to science.

Current appointments include: Executive Editorial Board of the Macromolecular Journals and Trustee of the High Polymer Research Group.