Dame Clare Philomena Grey is Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the
Department of Chemistry
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at the
University of Cambridge and a
Fellow of
Pembroke College, Cambridge
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. Grey uses
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study and optimize
batteries
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.
Education
Grey received a
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987 followed by a
Doctor of Philosophy degree in
chemistry
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in 1991, both from the
University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis, under the supervision of
Anthony Cheetham, used
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and
magic angle spinning (MAS) to study
rare-earth pyrochlores.
Career and research
Following Grey's graduate studies, she held a
postdoctoral research position at the
University of Nijmegen.
From 1992 to 1993, she worked as a visiting researcher at
DuPont
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.
In 1994, Grey was appointed a professor at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook
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, and became full professor in 2001.
In 2009, she became the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in Materials Chemistry at the
University of Cambridge.
From 2009 to 2010 she was the Director of the Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center, and Associate Director from 2011 to 2014. She is current the director of the EPSRC Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Systems.
Battery research
Grey pioneered the application of
nuclear magnetic resonance to study and improve the performance of batteries, particularly
lithium ion batteries. She also made major contributions to the development of
lithium-air batteries.
Grey is co-founder of Nyobolt, a company which specializes in
niobium
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-based batteries.
Honours and awards
Grey was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011
and awarded the
Günther Laukien Prize in 2013
[ followed by the Davy Medal in 2014 for "''further pioneering applications of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance to materials of relevance to energy and the environment''."]Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(DBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours
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for services to science.
Other awards, honours and career highlights include:
*2008 Vaughan Lecturer
*2010 John Jeyes Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
*2011 Kavli Medal
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[ENC Monday Bruker Party, Laukien Prize Awarded To Clare Grey , TheResonance – Bruker's Blog about NMR, EPR and MRI]
*2015 Arfvedson-Schlenk Award, for outstanding scientific and technical achievements in lithium chemistry
*2017 Prix Franco-Britannique from the Société Chimique de France
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* 2018 Interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for '' The Life Scientific'' on BBC Radio 4 first broadcast March 2018John B. Goodenough Award
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Körber European Science Prize
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References
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Living people
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Stony Brook University faculty
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1965 births
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire