[3] Aldridge began his academic career as a Post-doctoral Associate at Imperial College London and the University of Notre Dame, USA, where he was also a Fulbright Scholar.
[8] Since 2019, Aldridge has been Director for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Inorganic Chemistry for Future Manufacturing (OxICFM).
[9] He is also Director of the EPSRC CDT in Inorganic Materials for Advanced Manufacturing (IMAT) (2024 - present), with both centres collectively managing research funding of over £25 million.
[10] Aldridge’s research interests span inorganic and organometallic chemistry, with a focus on the design of novel main group complexes for small molecule activation.
[14] Aldridge's most prominent works have involved the synthesis and reactivity of boryl- and aluminyl anions,[15][16] in addition to acyclic silylenes and stannylenes.