Nicole Grobert#
Membership Number: | 4881 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www-grobert.materials.ox.ac.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 11/2016 - present Royal Society Industry Fellowship, Williams Advanced Engineering, Grove, UK
- 04/2012 - present Ordinary Fellow of Materials Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK
- 10/2010 - present Professor of Nanomaterials, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 09/2006 - 09/2014 Royal Society University Resarch Fellowship, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 09/2003 - 09/2006 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 01/2002 - 09/2003 Max-Planck / DFG Research Fellow, Team leader Nanotube Group, MPI für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
- 10/1999 - 12/2001 Royal Society Research Assistant, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Centre, University of
- Sussex, Brighton, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Hierarchical nanostructures
- Nanoparticles
- Energy applications
- Nanotubes
- Nanomaterials
- Microscopy
- Composite materials
- Materials engineering
- Thermal management
- 2D materials
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission
- 2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2018 Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- 2013 Young Scientist 2013, World Economic Forum
- 2013 Selected by the ERC present ERC-funded research at the Alpbach Technology Forum
- 2011 Winner of EPSRC Sandpit: INSPIRE Robust Biocatalysis for Energy Solutions
- 2009 Merit Award, Department of Materials, University of Oxford
- 2009 ERC Starting Grant (and 2 ERC Proof of Concept Grants (2011, 2016, 2017)
- 2008 Senior Research Fellowship, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- 2008 Future Leader 2008, Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto Japan
- 2007 - present Visiting Professor Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan
- 2006 Nesta CRUCIBLE Awardee 30 annual Crucible Fellowships are given to promising interdisciplinary scientists working across the UK
- 2006 Outstanding individual - a testament to Britain’s scientific potential and the dynamism selected by the Royal Society
- 2005 Senior Research Fellowship Wolfson College, Oxford
- 2003 - present Visiting scientist at the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan
- 2001 International Pergamon Prize