Professor Stephen Mann FRS
	Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 117 9289935        Fax: +44 (0) 117 9251295 s.mann@bristol.ac.uk

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Stephen Mann was born on April 1st, 1955 in Leeds, United Kingdom. He received a first class BSc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1976, and a MSc. degree in Pollution and Environmental Control from the University of Manchester in 1978. He was awarded a D.Phil. in Chemistry in 1982 from the University of Oxford for postgraduate research in biomineralization and bioinorganic materials chemistry, under the supervision of Prof. R .J. P. Williams FRS. He was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford from 1981 to 1984. In 1984, Professor Mann moved to the University of Bath, UK as a lecturer in Chemistry. He was promoted to reader in 1988, and appointed to a full professorship in 1990. In 1998, he was appointed to a professorship in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol and is currently director of the newly established Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry.

Professor Mann was awarded the Corday-Morgan Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1993, the Vinci of Excellence Trophy in the LVMH Moet Hennessy/Louis Vuitton Science for Art Competition in 1996, the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation in 1998, and the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award for 1999. He is on the editorial and advisory board of several journals including Advanced Materials, Chemistry of Materials and Angewandte Chemie, and was Associate Editor (Materials) for Chemical Communications from 1996-99. He was visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1988) and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (1993/4), and appointed as Barré Lecturer, University of Montreal, Canada, in 2001, and Dow Distinguished Lecture in Materials Science, Northwestern Univeristy, USA (2003). He has served as a member of the inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry research council committees and Dalton Division Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1996). Professor Mann was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2003.

Professor Mann's research is concerned with the chemical synthesis, characterization and emergence of complex forms of organized matter. Specifically, his work has explored the interface between biomineralization and materials chemistry, from which he has developed a conceptual framework for the synthetic construction of higher-order inorganic structures. His work on biomineralization has pursued a chemical and structural approach to the study of small-scale functional structures, with particular focus on the synthesis and assembly of nanoscale magnets in magnetotactic bacteria, superparamagnetic iron oxides in ferritin protein cages, and complex chiral architectures in the calcium carbonate coccoliths of certain marine algae. In parallel, he has pioneered a biomimetic approach to materials chemistry based on the use of self-assembled organic structures for the synergistic synthesis of organized inorganic matter. For example, Langmuir monolayers, protein cages, lipid and surfactant mesostructures and bacterial superstructures have been exploited in the template-directed nucleation, growth and patterning of inorganic materials. Professor Mann has also pioneered the use of complex fluids, such as surfactant and polymer micelles and microemulsions, as organized reaction media for the synthesis of inorganic materials with biomimetic form.

Professor Mann has published over 300 scientific papers, and edited two books on Biomineralization (1989) and Biomimetic Materials Chemistry (1996), and is author of a book entitled, Biomineralization: Principles and Concepts in Bioinorganic Materials Chemistry published in 2001. He has presented more than 100 invited lectures at international conferences and 100 talks in research colloquia. He receives research grants financed from both government and industrial sources. Current research activities include: biomineralization, biomimetic materials chemistry, nanomagnetics, bioinorganic nanocomposites, template-directed materials synthesis, porous inorganic-organic mesostructures, multi-functional self-assembled materials, polymer-mineral composites, smart colloids and superstructures, and emergent complexity in self-organized materials. He enjoys family life, running half marathons, and playing the electric guitar.