Key information
- Duration:
- 3 years full time
- Typical A-level offer:
- ABB
- UCAS code:
- F100
- Start date:
- September 2020
- 8th in the UK for Chemistry (The Guardian University Guide 2020)
At Sussex, you’re taught by today’s leading chemists, whose research is making world-changing impact in many areas, including renewable energy, drug design and cancer, and making the world’s tiniest magnets.
You’ll focus on core modules during the first two years. In Year 3, you’ll choose from a range of options, allowing you to tailor your degree to your interests. You can study, for example:
- the structure of drug molecules and designing potential new, improved medicines
- quantum chemical methods
- the principles of lasers and their application.
You can also take an extra year to do a professional placement or study at an international university.
Accreditation
This course is accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
MChem or BSc?
We also offer this course as a four-year MChem, as a four-year MChem with an industrial placement year, or as a four-year MChem with summer research placements. Find out about the benefits of an integrated Masters year.
You’d be hard pressed to find friendlier, more helpful tutors than we have at Sussex.”Kyran Samy
Chemistry BSc
Our staff
I’ve had a varied academic career, which has taken me to France and Switzerland, and a period in industry working in a number of small biotech organisations.”Professor John Spencer
Professor of Bio-organic Chemistry
Dr Alaa Abdul-Sada
Mass Spectrometry Academic Research Facility Manager
Prof Mark Bagley
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Research interests
Ageing, Arthritis, Biomarkers, Drug discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, Metabolomics, Structural genomics
Prof Wendy Brown
Professor Of Physical Chemistry
Research interests
Astrochemistry, Infrared spectroscopy, Physical chemistry, Surface Science, TPD
Dr Qiao Chen
Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry
Research interests
Catalysis and surfaces, Coatings for Energy applications, Photocatalysis, Solar Cells (Photovoltaics)
Prof Geoff Cloke
Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
Actinide complexes, Lanthanide complexes, Organometallic Catalysis, Organometallic complexes of transition metals, Organometallic syntheses
Prof Hazel Cox
Professor of Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry
Research interests
Computational chemistry, computational inorganic chemistry, quantum chemistry, theoretical chemical physics, theoretical chemistry
Dr Iain Day
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry & NMR Spectoscopy
Research interests
Aggregation, Chemical Data Analysis, Inverse Problems, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Physical chemistry, Structure elucidation
Dr George Kostakis
Senior Lecturer In Physical/Inorganic Chemistry
Research interests
3d/4f, Bimetallic Catalysts, Coordination chemistry, Coordination Clusters, Coordination Polymers, Polynuclear Inorganic Clusters Topology, Topology
Prof Richard Layfield
Professor of Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry)
Research interests
Chemical synthesis, Chemical Synthetic Methodology, Coordination chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Molecular Magnets, Organometallic chemistry
Dr Mark Osborne
Senior Lecturer In Chemistry
Research interests
Laser Spectroscopy
Prof John Spencer
Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry
Research interests
Chemical probes, Medicinal Chemistry, microwave chemistry, Parallel Synthesis, Supramolecular chemistry
Dr John Turner
Reader in Inorganic Physical Chemistry
Research interests
Photocatalysis
Dr Alfredo Vargas
Senior Lecturer In Physical Chemistry
Research interests
Physical chemistry
Dr Eddy Viseux
Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
Research interests
Breast cancer, Chemical synthesis, Chemical Synthetic Methodology, Chiral Catalysis, Fluorescence markers, Fluorophores, Gold - Precious Metals - Industrial Metals, Ligand Design, Ligand Synthesis, Oncology, Transition metals
