Professor Saiful Islam

Professor Saiful Islam

Professor Saiful Islam is a Modelling and Simulation Steering Group member.

Saiful is Professor of Materials Modelling at the University of Oxford. He grew up in London and obtained his Chemistry degree and PhD from University College London. He then worked at the Eastman Kodak Labs in New York, and the Universities of Surrey and Bath. His research focuses on understanding and developing new materials for lithium and sodium batteries, solid-state batteries and perovskite solar cells.

Saiful has received several awards including the 2022 Royal Society Hughes Medal for energy research, 2020 ACS Award in Energy Chemistry and 2017 RSC Peter Day Award in Materials Chemistry.

He presented the 2016 BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the theme of energy which included a lemon battery world record. He is a Patron of Humanists UK, and when not exploring energy materials, he enjoys family breaks (as a dad of two), films and indie music.

Research details: https://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/islam.html

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