Programme

Professor Clare P. Grey: Professor Grey obtained her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Oxford, the latter working with Professor A. K. Cheetham on NMR of Rare-Earth Pyrochlores. She then worked at the University of Nijmegan, State Universiry of New York and the Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg before becoming a Professor at the State University of New York in 2001. In 2009, Professor Grey moved to the University of Cambridge where she is currently Head of the Materials Research Interest Group and Inorganic Sector. Her research interests include battery applications, fuel cells, supercapacitors which are studied through experimental techniques such as x-ray synchotron studies and in-situ NMR as well as DFT.

Professor Jonathan W. Steed: Professor Steed obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at University College London, working with Derek Tocher on organometallic chemistry. He graduated in 1993 winning the Ramsay Medal for his Ph.D. work. Between 1993 and 1995 he was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama and University of Missouri, working with Jerry Atwood. In 1995 he was appointed as a Lecturer at Kings College London. In 2004 he joined Durham University where he is currently Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.He is the recipient of the RSC Meldola Medal (1998), Durham's Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching (2006), the Bob Hay Lectureship (2008) and the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize (2010). His interests are in anion binding and sensing, supramolecular gels and crystalline solids including pharmaceuticals and hydrates

Professor Andrew S. Weller: Professor Weller studied for his first degree at the University of Warwick and a PhD at the University of Bristol, the latter specialising in organometallic Chemistry. He then worked in Edinburgh and the US as postdoctoral researcher, before being awarded a 8 year Royal Society University Research Fellowship which he held at the University of Bath. In 2007 he moved to Oxford to take up a personal chair in Chemistry and a tutorial Fellowship at Magdalen. His research interests are related to catalysis, C-H, C-C and B-H sigma complexes and subsequent activation and the self-assembly of metal fragments to form novel clusters that show promise as models for hydrogen on metal surfaces and new hydrogen storage devices.