Crystal structure determination of complex oxide hetero-structures using surface x-ray diffraction and Coherent Bragg Rod Analysis (reference: Alaria LRC123)

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Career overview

Professor Matthew Rosseinsky studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he received a BA in 1987 and a D. Phil in 1990. Following his studies, he joined A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff. In 1992, he returned to Oxford as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church. In 1999, he moved to the University of Liverpool, where he holds the position of Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Throughout his career, Professor Rosseinsky has received numerous awards, including the Harrison Memorial Prize in 1991, the Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize in 2000, and the Tilden Lectureship in 2006 from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In 2009, he was honoured with the inaugural De Gennes Prize from the RSC, recognising his lifetime achievements in materials chemistry. He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Northwestern University in 2006, a Zernike Lecturer at Rijksuniversitat Groningen in 2009, and received the C.N.R. Rao Award from the Chemical Research Society of India in 2010. In 2017, he was the Muetterties Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lee Memorial Lecturer at the University of Chicago. In 2008, Professor Rosseinsky was elected to the Royal Society and was awarded the Hughes Medal in 2011 for his influential discoveries in the synthetic chemistry of solid-state electronic materials and novel microporous structures. He became a Royal Society Research Professor in 2013 and received the Davy Medal in 2017 for his advances in the design and discovery of functional materials, integrating new experimental and computational techniques. He was a member of the Science Minister’s Advanced Materials Leadership Council from 2014 to 2016 and served on the governing Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, he delivered the Flack Memorial Lectures for the Swiss Crystallographic Society and was awarded the Frankland Lectureship by Imperial College London. In 2020, he became an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India. In 2022, he presented the Davison Lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received the Basolo Award from the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society. In 2023, Professor Rosseinsky was awarded the Eni Energy Frontiers Award for the digital design and discovery of next-generation energy materials by the President of Italy.

Research interests

Professor Rosseinsky leads a research group focused on the design, discovery, synthesis, and characterisation of solid state materials. His work aims to enhance the fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical properties of new materials while improving their performance for applications in energy storage and generation, communications, and catalysis. He has made influential discoveries in the synthetic chemistry of solid state electronic materials and novel microporous structures.