Stephen Mann, FRS, FRSC, (born 1 April 1955) is Professor of

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, co-director of the Max Planck Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology, director of the Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry, director of the Centre for Protolife Research, and was principal of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at the

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, UK.

Education

Mann was awarded a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

degree in

from the

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for Research univer ...

in 1976, and a

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of Postgraduate education, graduate study and original resear ...

degree from the

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in 1982 under the supervision of Professor R. J. P. Williams FRS.

Career

Following his Doctor of Philosophy degree, Mann was elected to a junior research fellowship at Keble College, University of Oxford, and then awarded a lectureship at the

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in 1984 where he was appointed to a full professorship in 1990. He moved to the

in 1998.

Research

Mann's research is concerned with the chemical synthesis, characterization and emergence of complex forms of organized matter. His research activities include

biomineralization Biomineralization, also written biomineralisation, is the process by which living organisms produce minerals, often resulting in hardened or stiffened '' mineralized tissues''. It is an extremely widespread phenomenon: all six taxonomic kingd ...

biomimetic material Biomimetic materials are materials developed using inspiration from nature. This may be useful in the design of composite materials. Natural structures have inspired and innovated human creations. Notable examples of these natural structures inclu ...

s chemistry, synthesis and self-assembly of

nanoscale Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propertie ...

objects, functional

nanomaterials Nanomaterials describe, in principle, chemical substances or materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale). Nanomaterials research takes a materials science ...

, complexity and emergent behaviour in hybrid

nanostructure A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures. Nanostructural detail is microstructure at nanoscale. In describing nanostructures, it is necessary to differentiate between the number of dimen ...

s, and solvent-free liquid proteins. His current work is focused on the design and construction of synthetic

protocell A protocell (or protobiont) is a self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of lipids proposed as a rudimentary precursor to cells during the origin of life. A central question in evolution is how simple protocells first arose a ...

s. Mann has published over 550 scientific papers with a current

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of 125 and over 64,000 citations. He is listed in the 2014 Thomson Reuters index of world's most influential scientific minds and in the top 0.01% of cited scientists.

Awards and honours

Mann was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

, UK in 2003. Other accolades include: * Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1991. * Fellow

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the ...

, 1996. * Max-Planck Society/

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation () is a foundation that promotes international academic cooperation between scientists and scholars from Germany and abroad. Established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is funded by t ...

Research Award, 1998–2003. * Interdisciplinary Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1999. * Joseph Chatt Lecture and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006. *

de Gennes Prize The De Gennes Prize (formerly known as the Prize for Materials Chemistry) was established in 2008 and is awarded biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding and exceptional work in the field of materials chemistry. The de Gennes ...

and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011. * French-British Prize, Chemical Society of France, 2011. * Royal Society Davy Medal (2016). *Member of Academia Europaea (2020).

References

External links

* Stephen Mann website: http://www.stephenmann.co.uk * Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry website: http://www.bristolcomc.co.uk * Centre for Protolife Research website: http://www.bristolprotolife.co.uk *Max Planck Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology: https://maxplanck-minimalbiology.bristol.ac.uk {{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Stephen Living people 1955 births Place of birth missing (living people) Scientists from Bristol English chemists Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Bath Academics of the University of Bristol