Title: Hydrogen Bonding in Protonic Ionic Liquids
Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Seddon（The Queen’s University of Belfast，UK）
Time: 9:30a.m., Oct. 31st, 2016
Venue: Room 214, Building No. 16, Wushan Campus

Brief introduction to Prof. Kenneth Richard Seddon
Prof. Kenneth Richard Seddon was born in Liverpool in 1950, and graduated from Liverpool University with a first class BSc(Hons) and a PhD, whence he moved to a research Fellowship at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and later to a Lectureship in Experimental Chemistry at the University of Sussex, where he twice attracted grants from the Venture Research Unit. In 1993, he was appointed to the Chair in Inorganic Chemistry at the Queen’s University of Belfast, where he is also the director of QUILL, an industrial–academic consortium, which he founded in 1999. He is a Professor Catedrático Visitante at ITQB (New University of Lisbon), holds a Visiting Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is Associate editor of Australian Journal of Chemistry.He has published over 420 papers and patents, co-authored four books, and co-edited twelve books: he has been cited over 29,000 times and his h-index is 79.