Name Clare Grey Alma mater University of Oxford | Notable awards Royal Society | |
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Institutions University of Cambridge | ||
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Clare Grey, FRS, is a British chemist. She is Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Pembroke College and the Associate Director of the Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center at Stony Brook University.
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Career
Clare Grey received a bachelor of arts degree (1987) and her doctorate in chemistry (1991), both from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis was on the nuclear magnetic resonance study of rare-earth pyrochlores under Anthony Cheetham. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Nijmegen and a visiting researcher at DuPont, she became a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 2009, she became the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in Materials Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
Research
Grey specialises in applications of nuclear magnetic resonance and in particular using it to study lithium ion batteries. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011 and awarded the Günther Laukien Prize in 2013 followed by the Davy Medal in 2014 for "further pioneering applications of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance to materials of relevance to energy and the environment."