Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust

Professor S Holloway
Trustee

Stephen graduated from Leicester University with a PhD in Theoretical Solid-State Physics in 1976, working in the field of gas-surface dynamics. He spent six years in continental Europe working in universities in Berlin, Copenhagen and Gothenburg. He joined the University of Liverpool in 1984 as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry under the direction of Sir David King. He was part of the team that founded the UK Surface Science Centre of Excellence in 1988 and was their Head of Theory until 2000. Stephen’s activities in the university were split equally into two parts – undertaking scientific research and teaching as his primary activities from 1984 until 2000 when he became Head of the Chemistry Department. Stephen also served in this management role for seven years after which he became (in succession) the Dean of Science (2007), the Dean of Science and Engineering (2008), The Executive Pro-Vice Chancellor (2012) and finally the Provost (2013). He retired from the university in 2015.