Susan Bourne

Background

About Susan Bourne

susan bourne is the professor of physical chemistry at the university of cape town. her research interests include the application of physicochemical methods to inclusion compounds and crystal engineering of metal-organic materials, all with the aim of correlating solid state structure with physical properties and reactivity. she has served as head of department, deputy dean, and as interim dean of the faculty of science at the university of cape town. she is a fellow of the royal society of chemistry and a fellow of the african academy of sciences. in 2019 she was the recipient of the iupac distinguished women in chemistry or chemical engineering award. in 2023 she was elected to the executive committee of the international union of crystallography. susan is an associate editor of crystengcomm, published by the royal society of chemistry, and a main editor (chemistry and crystal engineering) of iucrj, published by the iucr. susan has been a member of the board of trustees of the cambridge crystallographic data centre (ccdc) since 2020 and is currently vice-chair.