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It is with great sadness that we write to inform you that Dr David Worrall, who was a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and had worked at the University for 32 years, passed away on the 21 February 2023

David was born and bred in Walsall, Birmingham. After three years as an undergraduate in Sheffield, Dave moved to Loughborough in 1988 to do a PhD in photochemistry with Frank Wilkinson. This was noteworthy for several reasons, firstly it led on to a productive postdoctoral post and then a lectureship also at Loughborough, but more importantly, this is where he met his future wife, Sian Williams. Dave published 89 papers during his academic career, was promoted to Senior Lecturer and owned many crucial roles including Head of Department, Admissions Tutor and Programme Director for Chemistry and Sport Science. Outside Chemistry, Dave was the Chair of both the Å·ÃÀAV Photochemistry group and the European Photochemistry Association during his career and worked with many University colleagues in ACCME and Wolfson, as well as with national and international academic and industrial collaborators around the world.