Academic Background

Following an undergraduate degreee in chemistry and physics, Dr Mackenzie first came up to Magdalen as a graduate student, obtaining his DPhil in 1996 for studies of ZEKE spectroscopy and the study of rotational state-selected ion molecule reactions. Under a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship he then worked with Prof David Nesbitt in Boulder Colorado, USA, studying photoinitiated processes in weakly-bound molecular clusters. A return to oxford under a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship and a Research Fellowship at St. Anne's College was followed by his first academic post in 1999 as first lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Warwick. He and his group moved to the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge in 2006 when Dr Mackenzie took up a University Lecturehsip and a Fellowship at Pembroke College. Completing a great academic circle Dr Mackenzie returned to Oxford (and Magdalen) in October 2008 when he took up a University Lectureship in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory.

Undergraduate Teaching

Dr Mackenzie teaches all aspects of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

Research Interests

Atomic and Molecular Clusters; Photophysics and photochemistry in molecluar clusters; Spectroscopy, structure and reactivity ofgas-phase metal clusters; Development of novel spectroscopic techniques for the study of dynamical interfaces.

Selected Publications

Surface Assembly and Redox Dissolution of Silver Nanoparticles Monitored by Evanescent Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C., 112, 15274 (2008)

Evanescent Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy as a probe of Interfacial Adsorption: Interaction of tris(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) with silica surfaces and polyelectrolyte films Langmuir 25, 248 (2009)

Evanescent Wave Broadband Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy using Supercontinuum radiation: A New Probe of Electrochemical Processes, Electrochemical Communications, 10, 1827 (2008)

In situ measurement of colloidal gold adsorption to functionalized silica surfaces, J. Phys. Chem. C., 112, 6462 (2008)

The chemistry of nitrogen oxides on small size-selected cobalt clusters, J. Chem. Phys., 130, 064305 (2009)

Density functional theory calculations of vibrational spectra of rhodium oxide clusters Chem. Phys. Lett., 469, 31 (2009)

Chemistry of (and on) transition metal clusters: An FT-ICR study of the reaction of niobium cluster cations with nitric oxide, Eur. J. Mass Spectrom., 15, 83 (2009)

Oxides of rhodium clusters: Theoretical investigation of experimental reactivities, J. Chem. Phys., 129, 124304 (2008)

Vibrational predissociation in weakly-bound clusters: A dispersed fluorescence study of toluene-rare gas complexes, Chem. Phys. Lett. 452, 6, (2008)

Spin-orbit coupling in complexes of toluene with rare gas atoms J. Chem. Phys. 127, 024301 (2007)