Graeme Horley, PhD
Scientific Programme Manager
IC&ET and Life Sciences Directorates
Tel: + 353 (0)1 607 3118
Email: graeme.horley@sfi.ie
Dr Graeme Horley joined SFI as a Scientific Programme Manager in January 2008, with a remit spanning both the Life Sciences and IC&ET Directorates.
Dr Horley studied Chemical Physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, obtaining a B.Sc. (Hons) in 1994, and then remained at UKC for a further year to complete an M.Sc. in Materials Chemistry, based on the electrocrystallization of radical cationic salts of organosulfur compounds. He then moved to Imperial College London, from where he obtained a PhD in 1999 through studying the synthesis of novel single-molecular precursors and their use in the preparation of III/VI thin films by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). He then carried out postdoctoral work for three years at the University of Bath, where he focused mainly on the development of new precursor complexes for use in the CVD of tin- and antimony oxide.
Dr. Horley then left the academic arena to move into scientific publishing, working from 2002–2007 for Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, the German arm of John Wiley & Sons, where he was based in Weinheim in the state of Baden-Württemberg (with the last two years based externally in Ireland). Initially, he worked for almost two years as an Assistant (then Associate) Editor of Angewandte Chemie International Edition. He was then asked to work on the foundation of Small, a new journal of micro- and nanoscale science and technology, which was first published in 2005, and for which he served initially as Associate Editor, then Deputy Editor, and finally as Editor-in-Chief. Throughout his period of employment with Wiley-VCH, his role encompassed all aspects of scientific publishing, including copyediting, peer review, article acquisition, decision-making on manuscript acceptance, issue planning, and collaboration on many aspects of journal management.
