About
At Cambridge: MA & PhD; 1851, Clare College & Royal Society Fellowships. At Birmingham: founded the UK's first nanoscience centre (1994). At Swansea: founded the Nanomaterials Lab (2017). Awards: IOP Boys Medal, dr. h.c. Hasselt University, BVC Yarwood Medal, EPSRC Fellowship. Fellow IOP, RSC, LSW. Published 400+ papers, >13,000 citations, h=58. 18 families of patent apps. Spin-outs: Inanovate, Irresistible Materials, Grove Nanomaterials. Editor in Chief, Advances in Physics: X (Taylor and Francis) and Frontiers of Nanoscience (Book Series, Elsevier).
CV
2017- Head, Nanomaterials Lab, Department of Engineering, Swansea University
2015- Professor, School of Physics, Nanjing University, China
2014- Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Physics: X (Taylor and Francis Journal)
2004- Editor, Frontiers of Nanoscience (Elsevier Book Series)
2004-2017 Visiting Professor, University of Wales, Swansea
1994-2017 Professor of Experimental Physics & Head, Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, University of Birmingham
1993-1994 College Lecturer, Clare College, Cambridge
1988-1994 Royal Society 1983 University Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
1987-1993 Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge
1986-1988 Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
1983-1986 PhD in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
1980-1983 B.A. (1st Class) in Natural Sciences (Physics and Theoretical Physics), Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1973-1980 Olchfa Comprehensive School, Swansea
Visiting Positions
2010 Technical University of Denmark (Physics)
2000 Harvard University (Chemistry)
Oxford University (Chemistry), also Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine’s College
1990 Cornell University (Physics)