Peter Philip Edwards#
Membership Number: | 3642 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2013 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 to date Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
- 2003 - 2013 Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry
- 1999 Professor of Chemistry, and of Materials, University of Birmingham
- 1996 Head, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
- 1991 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Birmingham
- 1988 Co-Founder and Co-Director Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, Cambridge University
- 1986 Visiting Professor, Baker Laboratory of Chemistry, Cornell University
- 1979 Demonstrator, then Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, Cambridge University; Director of Studies in Chemistry, Jesus College, Cambridge
- 1977 SRC Nato Fellow, and Ramsay Memorial Fellow, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford
- 1975 Fulbright Scholar and National Science Foundation Fellow, Cornell University
- 1974 SRC Fellow, Salford and Cambridge Universities
Fields of Scholarship
- The Metal-Insulator transition
- Metals in non-aqueous solvents
- High-Temperature superconductivity
- Metal clusters and nanoparticles
- Hydrogen storage materials
- Transparent conducting oxides
- Carbon-neutral liquid fuels
Honours and Awards
- UK:
- 2013 Inaugural Distinguished Sir Edward Frankland Lecture, Imperial College, London
- 2012 Armourers and Brasiers Materials Science Venture Prize
- 2012 Bakerian Lecture , Royal Society of London
- 2007 DSc, honoris causa, Salford University
- 2003 Hughes Medal , Royal Society of London
- 1999 Liversidge Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1996 Elected, Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 1992 Tilden Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1987 Corday-Morgan Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1975 Fulbright Scholarship
- Europe:
- 2009 Elected, German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- India:
- 2009 CNR Rao Lecturer, Chemical Research Society, India
- China:
- 2011 Elected, Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- USA:
- 2012 Elected, International Member, American Philosophical Society