Chris Rodgers

Research Interests

I am a physical chemist. My research is centred around magnetic resonance phenomena and spectroscopy - both experiment and theory. I have taught undergraduate chemistry students in Oxford since 2003.

Principal areas of interest

• ³¹P Magnetic resonance imaging
• Magnetic “compass” sense of birds
• Magnetic field effects on chemical reactions (“Spin Chemistry”)
• Applications of lasers in chemistry

Publications

• “Chemical compass model of avian magnetoreception”. Nature, 2008.
• “Distance Measurements in the Borderline Region of Applicability of CW EPR and DEER: A Model Study on a Homologous Series of Spin-Labelled Peptides”. J. E. Banham, C. M. Baker, S. Ceola, I. J. Day, G. H. Grant, E. J. J. Groenen, C. T. Rodgers, G. Jeschke and C. R. Timmel. J Mag Res 191 (2008) 202-218.
• “Determination of radical re-encounter probability distributions from magnetic field effects on reaction yields”. J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2007.
• “The Spin Chemistry of Bird Navigation”. In proceedings of the ISMS2005 conference, Yokohama, Japan.
• “Low-field optically detected EPR spectroscopy of transient photoinduced radical pairs” J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 5035–41, 2005.
• “The avian geomagnetic sense: theoretical studies on a proposed origin through the Radical Pair Mechanism” In proceedings of the Royal Institute of Navigation conference 2005, Reading, UK.
• “Radio Frequency Magnetic Field Effects on a Radical Recombination Reaction: A Diagnostic Test for the Radical Pair Mechanism” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126(26), 8102, 2004.

Presentations and posters

Dec 2007	I presented a poster “The road to state-selected ultracold chemistry of CH3F” at the annual meeting of the RSC’s Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group (SDG2007), Norwich, UK.
Oct 2007	Invited lecture at the Bracknell Natural History Society (2 x 45min with break for questions).
Mar 2007	I gave one of three JEOL prize lectures at the ESR2007 conference.
Dec 2006	I was invited to speak about my work in a workshop at the Physics Department of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.
Dec 2006	I won joint first prize for a presentation of my work at the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences division graduate prize symposium competition.
Nov 2005	I spoke at a “Japan-UK Student Mini-Symposium on Magneto-Science” in Hiroshima University. I also gave a talk to the group of Prof Hisao Murai in Shizuoka University.
Nov 2005	I presented a poster “The Spin Chemistry of Bird Navigation” at the International Symposium on Magnetoscience 2005, Japan.
Sep 2005	I spoke in full session at the Spin Chemistry Meeting 2005 here in Oxford. I was one of only two graduate students to speak at the conference.
Apr 2005	I spoke at the Royal Institute of Navigation conference in Reading about “The Radical Pair Mechanism in avian magnetoreception”. This was a fifteen minute talk in full session, followed by questions. Two of the delegates described this talk as “very illuminating” and a “very clear explanation of the free radical mechanism” in e-mails sent to me later.
	I have spoken about my work to sixth form students at my former school. I speak annually at my research group seminars.

This page has the following sub pages.

• Magnetic field effects in chemical systems
• Magnetic “compass” sense of birds
• ³¹P Magnetic resonance imaging
• Applications of lasers in chemistry