News

Prof Nicole Grobert appointed to European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors

Friday 4 May 2018

Congratulations to Professor Grobert who will formally join the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission in May 2018, following the departure of Cédric Villani due to his election to the French Assemblée Nationale in 2017.

Publication Highlights

Helical Dislocations: Observation of vacancy defect bias of screw dislocations in neutron irradiated Fe-9Cr

Giant Photo-Induced Chirality in Thin Film Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST)

Critical stripping in solid electrolyte cells

Atomic and electronic structure of an epitaxial Nb2O honeycomb monolayer on Au(111)

Influence of the support on stabilizing local defects in strained monolayer oxide films

Strong Opto-structural coupling in low dimensional GeSe3 films

Polarons from First Principles, without Supercells

Microstructural Growth of Lithium in All-Solid-State Batteries

What Triggers Oxygen Loss in Oxygen Redox Cathode Materials?

Anisotropic Fracture Dynamics Due to Local Lattice Distortions

Laser writing of individual nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond with near-unity yield

Understanding the role of selenium in defect passivation for highly efficient selenium-alloyed cadmium telluride solar cells

Recent News

Oxford leading project to revolutionise electric vehicle batteries

New EPSRC grants to test materials for next-generation nuclear fission reactors

Better Solid-state Batteries - Faraday Institution SOLBAT project

Prof Nicole Grobert appointed to European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors

Rosalind Franklin Institute invest in unique electron microscope

Awards & Prizes

Royal Society University Research Fellowship

Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship

2019 ACS Nano Lectureship Award

European Ceramic Society 2019 Stuijts Award

Rising Star in Computational Materials Science

Oxtex spinout wins WOBA Innovation Award 2019

Prelims Practicals Prize 2018