Professor Matthew Rosseinsky continues the 2020 webinar series with his talk on “Digital Routes to Functional Materials”.
About this Event
Abstract
The need for new materials to tackle societal challenges in energy and sustainability is widely acknowledged. As demands for performance increase while resource constraints narrow available options, the vastness of composition, structure and process parameter space make the apparently simple questions of where to look for and how to then find the materials we need a grand challenge to contemporary physical science. Using examples including catalysis, energy storage and harvesting, Professor Rosseinsky will describe workflows that integrate digital (both physical model-based and machine learning) and experimental (both serial and high-throughput) methods to realise new functional materials in the laboratory.
About Professor Matthew Rosseinsky
Matthew Rosseinsky obtained a degree and a D. Phil in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1990. He was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories then in 1992 was appointed University Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Oxford. In 1999 he moved to the University of Liverpool as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008, and was awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2011. In 2013 he became a Royal Society Research Professor. He was awarded the inaugural de Gennes Prize for Materials Chemistry (a lifetime achievement award open internationally) by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009, the C.N.R. Rao Award of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2010 and gave the Muetterties Lectures at UC Berkeley and Lee Lectures at the University of Chicago in 2017. He was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 2017. He was a member of the governing Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2015 – 2019. His work addresses the synthesis of new functional materials in bulk and thin film form for energy, catalysis and information storage applications, and has been characterised by extensive collaboration with many academic and industrial colleagues, together with an integrated computational and experimental approach to materials discovery. Current areas of interest include materials for batteries and solid oxide fuel cells, multiferroics, thermoelectrics, superconductivity, materials for separations and catalysis, high-throughput materials discovery, and materials for solar energy conversion.
More Information
Please contact George Miller for more information.
george.miller@manchester.ac.uk
