Nicholas F. Chilton

Nicholas Frederick Chilton is an Australian chemist and a Professor in the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University and The Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester.

Education Chilton completed his Advanced Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree at Monash University in 2011 where he finished his final year project with Stuart R. Batten and Keith S. Murray. and mixed-metallic lanthanide-transition metal clusters, that display single molecule magnetism. During this time, he also designed a software program, PHI, for the calculation of the magnetic properties of paramagnetic coordination complexes. Chilton completed his Ph.D. on magnetochemistry at the University of Manchester, supervised by Richard Winpenny and Eric McInnes in 2015.

Research and career Chilton completed postdoctoral research at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council National EPR facility in collaboration with the University of Manchester. In 2016, he was awarded the British Ramsay Memorial Fellowship (2016–2018) to research how coordination chemistry can be used to engineer specific magnetic states of lanthanide ions. From 2017, He began work as a Senior Lecturer and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.

Chilton has also collaborated in developing software to be used in chemical research, particularly in modelling magnetic relaxation and magnetic properties of coordination complexes.