Nicholas Long is the Sir Edward Frankland BP Chair in Inorganic Chemistry.

Born in 1965, Nick obtained his BSc. in Chemistry from the University of Durham in 1986 and his PhD. in Organometallic Chemistry from the University of Exeter in 1989. Following the 'Adrian Research Fellowship' and a 'Temporary Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry' (University of Cambridge), he was appointed as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College in January 1995 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer (1999), Reader (2002) and Professor (2006). He is Head of the Catalysis and Advanced Materials Section and possesses wide-ranging experience and expertise in the synthesis of inorganic, organic and organometallic compounds, focussing primarily on metallocene, transition metal and lanthanide chemistry for the synthesis of functional molecules - and in recent years, probe design and novel methodologies for molecular imaging. He has published over 100 papers in scientific literature, including several high impact review articles and a critically-acclaimed textbook - 'Metallocenes'.

Within the Department and College, Nick has been the Head of Inorganic Teaching (2002 - 2006), is Departmental Postgraduate Tutor, is a member of the Imaging Sciences Centre Steering Committee and also course Co-Director and Founder of a new Masters in Research course in Bioimaging Sciences (started October 2005). Externally, he is a member of the EPSRC Chemistry College. He was awarded the 2006 RSC Prize in Organometallic Chemistry and was a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow 2009/10.