Dr David Pugh is a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London.

David obtained his BSc from the University of Bristol, then completed an MPhil under the supervision of Richard Whitby (2005) and PhD with Andreas Danopoulos (2008), both in organometallic chemistry, at the University of Southampton.

He carried out postdoctoral research in main group materials chemistry with Claire Carmalt at UCL, before returning to Southampton to take up a role on the SCFED project with Gill Reid, where he won a Faculty prize for teaching.

In 2016 David moved to Imperial College London where he undertook a teaching and group management role for Paul Lickiss and subsequently Tom Welton, winning a President’s Award for Education in 2019.

David moved to King’s in 2020 to start his independent career. 

Research Interests

• Synthetic inorganic chemistry
• Small molecule activation
• Coordination chemistry
• Bimetallic chemistry
• X-Ray crystallography

Teaching

• Inorganic Chemistry
• Nano-scale & Extended Systems
• Catalysis
• UG Research Methods Literature Review
• MSci Research Project & Dissertation
• MRes Research Project in Interdisciplinary Chemistry

Research profile

For more information on Dr Pugh's research please see his Research Portal page

The Pugh Group

Postgraduate Researchers:

• Joseph Bunyan

David’s research interests lie broadly in the area of inorganic transition metal chemistry, with a particular focus on small molecule activation using bimetallic molecules. Research projects on the chemistry of the f-block elements in unusually high oxidation states, and CO2 activation at zero-valent nickel, are also ongoing within the group.