School of Chemistry

Virtual Open Days

Join us from 30 November to 5 December for our Postgraduate Virtual Open Days experience

Online courses

Discover the fascinating world of chemistry with our range of free online courses

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£5.4m award

New funding from the BBSRC will help researchers to identify new techniques for manipulating proteins - the chemical building blocks of life

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Illustration shows Aurora-A (light blue) and its three protein partners.

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Postgraduate Virtual Open Days
Online courses
£5.4m BBSRC award

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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.