Solving the World's Problems with chemistry

This talk was from a live webinar to find out more about how you can use chemistry to solve the world's biggest problems. If you're thinking of studying chemistry at university, you might be wondering where your degree could take you. Chemists are critical in solving some of the biggest problems that our world and society faces. Imagine using your chemistry skills to help the world in achieving ‘net zero’; discover new medicines and vaccines; or combine chemistry with artificial intelligence to answer questions which have stood for centuries. In this webinar you’ll hear from Professor Jeremy Frey about:
- What chemistry is really about
- Why it’s such an important discipline
- Why chemistry is so relevant to the goals of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26
- How chemistry at university is different to A Level
- The amazing things you can go on to do after your degree

Bio: Jeremy Frey is a Professor of Physical Chemistry and the head of the Computational Systems Chemistry Group at the University of Southampton. Before working at Southampton, he obtained his DPhil on experimental and theoretical aspects of van der Waals complexes in the Physical Chemistry Labs, Oxford University under the supervision of Professor Brian Howard, followed by a NATO/EPSRC fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and University of California, with Professor Y. T. Lee. Jeremy’s experimental research probes molecular organisation in environments from single molecules in molecular beams to liquid interfaces using laser spectroscopy from the IR to soft X-rays. He investigates how e-Science infrastructure supports scientific research with an emphasis on the way digital infrastructure can enhance the intelligent creation, dissemination and analysis of scientific data.