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Philip Mountford gained a D.Phil degree at the University of Oxford (1990) under the supervision of Professor M.L.H. Green. He remained in Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow, and in 1992 accepted a lectureship at the University of Nottingham. In 1998 he returned to Oxford where he was subsequently named as Professor of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis, and is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. His current research interests centre around the synthesis, structure, bonding and stoichiometric and catalytic reactivity of organometallic compounds of the early transition and lanthanide metals, and, more recently, the alkaline earth metals. This research has a particular emphasis on compounds with metal-nitrogen multiple bonds (imido, hydrazido and related), homogeneous olefin polymerisation and ring-opening polymerisation. He is an author of ca 240 articles and patents (H index 41, ~6000 citations), and has presented his group's research at ca 120 international and national conferences, meetings and university seminars. For a full publication list click here.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Philip Mountford is a past recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship (1998-1999), awarded for his early work in organometallic and coordination chemistry. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, the University of Bordeaux and the University of Heidelberg. He has served as Acting Head / Executive Deputy Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford since 2008, and is Chairman of the Editorial Board of the RSC journal Dalton Transactions and a member of the Dalton Division Council of the RSC. He was recently a consultant to DSM Elastomers BV and external examiner for the undergraduate chemistry course at the University of East Anglia. He is the holder of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Organometallic Chemistry (Frankland) Award for 2012 and 2013, which is given every two years for "outstanding contributions to pure and applied research in organometallic chemistry or coordination chemistry".

Philip Mountford lives in Oxford and is married with two teenage daughters. His interests and hobbies include the theatre, politics, music, football and travel. Until recently he also served as a governor and then chair of governors at a local school.