Welcome! My name is Alexander Whiteside. I’m a Development Editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry and a theoretical chemist by training. I'm currently supporting the development of our materials chemistry portfolio, but I also occasionally contribute to our web site/magazine Chemistry World, and assist in our outreach activities.

Selected Chemistry World stories:

• How the products of fire control the formation of snow (researcher profile)
• Ritonavir (podcast)
• DFT boosts machine-learning models of nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions
• Hydrogen bonds join forces to maximise water–water interaction

See more on my Chemistry World profile page.

I obtained my PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Maciej Gutowski at Heriot-Watt University. (Thesis title: "Proton transfer, electron binding and electronegativity in ammonium-containing systems".) From 2012 to 2014 I investigated batteries at the University of Bath with Prof. M. Saiful Islam. From 2014 to 2016 I studied corrosion with Prof. Stephen J. Jenkins of the University of Cambridge. I joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016 as a Publishing Editor, a position I held until beginning my current role in 2021.

Selected publications:

• Particle shapes and surface structures of olivine NaFePO₄ in comparison to LiFePO₄, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014,16, 21788-21794
• Is Electronegativity a Useful Descriptor for the Pseudo-Alkali Metal NH₄?, Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, 13197-13205.
• Ammonia−Hydrogen Bromide and Ammonia−Hydrogen Iodide Complexes: Anion Photoelectron and ab Initio Studies,  J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114, 1357-1363

See more on my Google Scholar profile page.

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You can read my old blog here.