Charles Richard Arthur Catlow#
| Membership Number: | 3494 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic_pages/richard_catlow |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University College London
- 2002 - 2007 Head of Chemistry Department, University College London, joint appointment with The Royal Institution
- 1998 - 2007 Director: Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution London
- 1989 - 2007 Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy, The Royal Institution, London
- 1985 - 1989 Professor of Physical Chemistry: Joint appointment between University of Keele and Daresbury Laboratory
- 1976 - 1985 University Lecturer in Chemistry, University College London
- 1975 - 1976 IBM Research Fellow, St. John's College, Oxford
- 1973 - 1975 ICI Research Fellow: Theoretical Chemistry Department, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Silicate structural chemistry
- Computer modelling of inorganic materials
- Defect physics and chemistry of solid materials
- Surfaces science and interphase chemistry
- Crystal structure prediction
- Computational heterogeneous catalysis, especially for micro-porous and oxide materials;
- Nano-chemistry and nucleation: Simulation of nano-particulate oxides and of nucleation and pre-nucleation processes.
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Lectureship Prize
- 2010 Honorary Fellow: Chemical Society of India
- 2008 Liversidge medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2006 Fellow of the Third world Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Fellow of the Royal Society (UK)
- 2001 Honorary Degree of the University of Havana, Cuba
- 1998 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Medal
- 1992 Royal Society of Chemistry Medal: Solid State Chemistry
