Dr Guy Denuault

Guy Denuault teaches electrochemistry, electroanalytical technics and physical chemistry at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

He was head of physical chemistry teaching, school exam officer, director of the MSc Electrochemistry and Battery Technologies, and director of MSc programmes.

He is the school senior tutor and director of the MSc Chemistry By Research.

He organises the Southampton Electrochemistry Summer School, a one CPD course on instrumental methods in electrochemistry.

Guy Denuault undertook his undergraduate training at the Reims Institute of Technology where he received his first degree and subsequently at Bordeaux University where he received his Master’s degree. He joined the Southampton Electrochemistry Group and carried out experimental and theoretical investigations into the application of ultramicroelectrodes in mechanistic and kinetic studies of coupled chemical reactions. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 and moved to the University of Texas at Austin where, in the group of Allen Bard, he worked on the development of the scanning electrochemical microscope (SECM). He returned to Southampton and took up a 5-year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship to continue the development of the SECM technique. He was appointed Lecturer (1993), Senior Lecturer (2000), and Associate Professor (2014).

He was visiting professor at the University of São Paolo (1998), University of Bordeaux (1999), National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (2006) and University of Oldenburg (2011-2012). In 2011, he became a Fellow of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study. His research has led him to deliver postgraduate courses overseas (Bern, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Grenoble, Lausanne, Neuchatel, São Paulo) and to present invited research seminars in the UK and abroad (Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Campinas, Grenoble, Lausanne, Limerick, Nancy, Oldenburg, Ribeirãon Preto, Rio Cuarto, Rio De Janeiro, Riyadh, San Carlos, São Paulo, Singapore, Venice, Warnemünde).

The list of supervised theses:

• A high-resolution study of surface reactivity by scanning electrochemical microscopy. Chemistry. Southampton, University of Southampton. PhD. 1997
• Development of Microelectrode Techniques for Analytical and Environmental Applications PhD Thesis, University of Southampton. 2000
• An investigation of species involved in the methanol carbonylation reaction by exafs and ultramicroelectrodes. PhD, University of Southampton. 2002
• Fabrication and characterisation of nanostructured palladium hydride microelectrode pH sensors. PhD, University of Southampton. 2003
• Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured palladium hydride microelectrode pH sensors. Chemical Sensors 2004, 20 (Suppl. A), 106-108.
• Fabrication, Characterisation and Optical Applications of Electrochemically Deposited Nanostructured IrOx films. PhD, University of Southampton. 2008
• Development of a nanostructured palladium microelectrode for pH monitoring in scanning electrochemical microscopy. PhD, University of Southampton. 2008
• Modelling of electrochemical processes at microelectrodes. PhD, University of Southampton. 2012
• Transient Studies at Microelectrodes. PhD, University of Southampton. 2015
• Fabrication and Characterisation of Solid Titanium Nitride and Molybdenum Nitride Microelectrodes. PhD, University of Southampton. 2018
• Applications of Microelectrodes and Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) to Complex Environmental Interfaces. PhD, University of Southampton. 2019
• Preparation of Glass Nanopores for the Coulter Counting of Transient Nanobubbles. PhD, University of Southampton. 2020
• Transient Studies of Oxygen Species Adsorbed on Platinum Microelectrodes. PhD, University of Southampton. 2020
• The role of water in the electrochemical response of platinum. PhD, University of Southampton. 2021
• Investigations on Three Kinds of Interfaces with SECM and Impact Electrochemistry: Experiments & Simulations. PhD, University of Southampton. 2024