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Professor Kenneth George McKendrick is a faculty member at Heriot-Watt University's School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, affiliated with the Institute of Chemical Sciences. He holds leadership roles, including Head of the Dynamics and Structure research grouping and membership in the Institute's Management Group. His research focuses on molecular collision dynamics, surface chemistry, and laser spectroscopy, with notable contributions to reactive collisions at liquid surfaces and rotational energy transfer in open-shell radicals.
Research interests include: 1) Dynamics of Reactive/Inelastic Molecular Collisions, 2) Collisions at Liquid Surfaces (e.g., ionic liquids), and 3) High-Energy Reactive Collisions. His work combines experimental methods like laser spectroscopy with computational modeling. Notable achievements include the RSC Chemical Dynamics Award (2015) and a Royal Society Leverhulme Fellowship (2008).
He collaborates with institutions like Montana State University and has published widely on surface scattering mechanisms and ionic liquid structures. Recent work includes studies on CN radical uptake at hydrocarbon surfaces and NO(A 2Σ⁺) collisions with CO₂.
- Awards: Royal Society Fellowship (2008), RSC Chemical Dynamics Award (2015), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2011)
- Grants/Activities: Editor for Annual Review of Physical Chemistry (2019–2021), frequent invited speaker at conferences, and organizer of the International Symposium on Molecular Beams (2019).
His research group collaborates closely with Dr. Matt Costen, focusing on experimental and computational studies of molecular dynamics at interfaces. Ongoing work explores stereodynamics in reactive systems and surface structure analysis using high-energy atomic probes.
