Robin Grimes
Robin Grimes | |
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 Robin Grimes at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018 | |
| Born | Robin William Grimes |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham (BSc) Case Western Reserve University (MS) Keele University (PhD)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials physics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Ministry of Defence Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Thesis | Quantum mechanical and classical modelling of defects in metal oxides. (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Catlow |
| Website | imperial |
Robin William Grimes FRS FREng[2] is chief scientific adviser in the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for nuclear science and technology and professor of materials physics at Imperial College London.[3][4][5] From February 2013 to August 2018 he served as chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).[4]
Education[]
Grimes was educated at University of Nottingham (BSc) and Case Western Reserve University (MS). He completed his PhD at Keele University for research supervised by Richard Catlow in 1988.[1]
Career and research[]
Grimes has used computer simulation and high performance computing (HPC) to predict the structural and dynamic behaviour of ceramics, metals and semiconductors for energy applications.[2] This has allowed him to identify ways in which atomic scale defects modify materials properties. He has investigated a wide range of properties, including thermal conductivity and how materials deform but also how atoms are transported through solids.[2] While best known for modelling nuclear materials, he has worked as much on electrochemical systems, optical and electronic materials.[2]
Grimes established science diplomacy within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office working as chief scientific adviser.[2] He has mainstreamed science as a tool in the UK's diplomatic tool box, using science evidence and science networks to place science collaboration as the heart of key international relationships.[2] He maintains a leading role in the nuclear power academic community.[2]
Awards and honours[]
Grimes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018[2] and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).[when?]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Grimes, Robin William (1988). Quantum mechanical and classical modelling of defects in metal oxides. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Keele. OCLC 556710010. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.375921.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Anon (2018). "Professor Robin Grimes FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
- ^ "Home - Professor Robin Grimes". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Robin Grimes FRS FREng". gov.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- ^ Robin Grimes publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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