Dr Oliver R Maguire MChem, PhD

Dr Oliver R Maguire

School of Chemistry
Assistant Professor in Systems Chemistry

Contact details

Email
o.r.maguire@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Chemistry
Molecular Sciences Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Oliver is both a systems chemist and physical organic chemist and joined the School of Chemistry in 2024.

Research in his group aims to enrich artificial systems and materials with new life-like behaviour such as decision-making. His group develops novel out-of-equilibrium chemical reaction networks out of organic and biochemical components (e.g. enzymes and nucleic acids) which process electrochemical signals and adapt their behaviour in response. The ultimate goal of his research is to understand how to construct life from the bottom-up.

Oliver is also passionate about developing people into outstanding scientists and aims for members of his group to develop into creative, determined and self-confident problem solvers.

Oliver’s research is currently funded by the European Research Council. In 2023 Oliver was nominated as an emerging Systems Chemistry talent by ChemSystemsChem.

Please visit the Maguire Research Group’s for further information.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Chemistry, Durham University, 2017
  • MChem (Hons), Durham University, 2012

Postgraduate supervision

Systems Chemistry
Physical Organic Chemistry
Soft Matter

Oliver welcomes applications from those interested in pursuing an MSci, PhD or Postdoc in the areas of:

  • Systems Chemistry
  • Physical Organic Chemistry
  • Enzymatic Reaction Networks
  • Hydrogels
  • Organocatalysis
  • Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origins of Life

Potential applicants interested in joining the group are encouraged to contact Oliver by email to discuss potential research projects. Specific funded opportunities will be advertised on the  and on job websites when available.

Other activities

Membership of Learned or Professional Societies:

  • Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (AMRSC), UK
  • Member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV) (Dutch Chemical Society), Netherlands
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
  • Alumnus Member of Origin of Life Early-career Network (OoLEN)

Honours and Awards:

  • 2023 - Systems Chemistry Talent, nominated as an emerging talent in systems chemistry in ChemSystemsChem
  • 2019 - KNCV (Dutch Chemical Society) Pub Quiz, 2nd best chemist in the Netherlands

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Maguire, O & O'Donoghue, AMC 2015, . Sustainable Catalysis, vol. 2, RSC Publishing.

Article

Maguire, OR, Smokers, IBA, Oosterom, BG, Zheliezniak, A & Huck, WTS 2024, '', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 11, pp. 7839-7849.

Maguire, OR 2024, '', ChemSystemsChem, vol. 6, no. 5, e202400027.

ter Harmsel, M, Maguire, OR, Runikhina, SA, Wong, ASY, Huck, WTS & Harutyunyan, SR 2023, '', Nature, vol. 621, pp. 87-93.

Maguire, OR, Smokers, IBA & Huck, WTS 2021, '', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 5517.

Maguire, OR, Wong, ASY, Baltussen, MG, van Duppen, P, Pogodaev, AA & Huck, WTS 2020, '', Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1676-1682.

Maguire, OR, Wong, ASY, Westerdiep, JH & Huck, WTS 2020, '', Chemical Communications, vol. 56, no. 26, pp. 3725-3728.

Maguire, OR, Zhu, J, Brittain, WDG, Hudson, AS, Cobb, SL & O鈥橠onoghue, AMC 2020, '', Chemical Communications, vol. 56, no. 45, pp. 6114-6117.

Maguire, OR, Taylor, B, Higgins, EM, Rees, M, Cobb, SL, Simpkins, NS, Hayes, CJ & O'Donoghue, AMC 2020, '', Chemical Science, vol. 11, no. 29, pp. 7722-7729.

Collett, CJ, Massey, RS, Taylor, JE, Maguire, OR, O'Donoghue, AMC & Smith, AD 2015, '', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 54, no. 23, pp. 6887-6892.

Collett, CJ, Massey, RS, Maguire, OR, Batsanov, AS, O鈥檇onoghue, AMC & Smith, AD 2013, '', Chemical Science, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1514-1522.

Lindsay, S, Lo, SK, Maguire, OR, Bill, E, Probert, MR, Sproules, S & Hess, CR 2013, '', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 898-909.

Review article

Maguire, OR & Huck, WTS 2019, '', Emerging topics in life sciences, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 517-527.