Matthew Golesworthy

I teach the first-year undergraduate Mathematics for Chemistry course at Trinity, which aims to provide chemists with the skills to explore the physical world of chemistry from a qualitative perspective, especially within the physical chemistry course.

My Part II and DPhil research focused on the effects that magnetic fields have on biochemical and chemical reactions and processes, with a particular interest on understanding magnetoreception – the ability of many organisms to sense the Earth’s magnetic field. I work on a custom-built spectrometer that uses cavity-enhancement to measure the changes in concentrations of chemical species under the influence, or absence, of magnetic fields more sensitively. These measurements can provide information about the kinetics and composition of such photochemical processes.

M. Golesworthy et al., ‘Singlet-triplet dephasing in radical pairs in avian cryptochromes leads to time-dependent magnetic field effects’, Journal of Chemical Physics, 159, 105102, (2023) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0166675)

J. Xu et al., ‘Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird’, Nature, 594, 535 (2021) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03618-9)

V. Déjean et al., ‘Detection of magnetic field effects by confocal microscopy’, Chemical Science, 11, 7772 (2020) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC01986K)