Events

Recent Developments in Perovskite Halides - Seminar by Prof Sir Anthony K Cheetham

Date: Tuesday 17 December 2024 11:00 - 12:00  

Location: Graduate Centre GC601 Montagu LT

The Centre for Sustainable Engineering is delighted to invite you to attend the seminar of Prof Sir Anthony K Cheetham, a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was formerly the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge (2007-2017) and the Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society (2012-2017). He obtained his D.Phil. at Oxford in 1972 and did post-doctoral work in the Materials Physics Division at Harwell. He joined the Chemistry faculty at Oxford in 1974, and then moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1991 to become Professor in the Materials Department. From 1992-2004 he was the Director of UCSB’s Materials Research Laboratory. In January 2020 he was knighted by the Queen for “Services to Materials Chemistry, UK Science and Global Outreach”, and in 2022 he received the Sheikh Saud International Prize for Materials Science.

Prof Cheetham will show us his work on 'Recent developments in perovskite halides'. You can find the abstract of his talk attached.

Please join us on Tuesday 17th December 2024 at 11.00h. Tea and coffee will be provided after the talk.
Please don't hesitate to contact Prof Joe Briscoe (j.briscoe@qmul.ac.uk) if you have any questions and feel free to forward this invite.

We hope to see you all there.