School of Chemistry

Discovering Science

Discover the fascinating world of everyday chemistry with this collection of five online courses

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Antimicrobial resistance

Professors Adam Nelson and Colin Fishwick are among our researchers tackling the growing global crisis of resistance to antibiotics and other anti-infective drugs

Coronavirus (covid-19)

The health and wellbeing of our staff, students and visitors is our top priority

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Online courses
Tackling antimicrobial resistance
Coronavirus (covid-19)

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Gold

rating for Leeds

in the latest Teaching Excellence Framework

95%

of our research activity is

'world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent' latest REF

Top 100

World Top 100 University

QS World University Rankings 2021

Research and innovation

Our world-leading research cuts across the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. The themes of our research groups are all at the disciplinary interfaces of chemistry, with: physics, geology and biology, physics and mathematics, biology and medicine, materials science, medicine and chemical engineering.