Name Saiful Islam | Role Professor | |
M Saiful Islam FRSC (born 1963) is a British materials chemist. He is Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath and recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2013-2018).
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- Saiful islam bd national qari
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards and honours
- References
His research uses advanced computer modelling techniques to gain atomic-scale insights into new materials for clean energy applications including lithium-ion batteries, solid oxide fuel cells and perovskite solar cells.
Saiful islam bd national qari
Early life and education
Islam was born in Pakistan. He grew up in Crouch End, London and went to Stationers' Company's School. He received both a BSc degree in chemistry and a PhD (1988) from University College London, where he studied under Professor Richard Catlow FRS. Subsequently, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Eastman Kodak laboratories in Rochester, New York, US, working on oxide superconductors.
Career
Islam returned to the UK in 1990 to become Lecturer, then Reader, at the University of Surrey. In January 2006 he was appointed Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath.
His research interests lie in the field of clean energy materials, especially new oxide materials for next generations of lithium batteries and solid oxide fuel cells. His group applies computational methods combined with structural techniques. He has presented more than 60 invited talks at international conferences, and has over 180 publications.
Islam is a member of the Royal Society's Diversity committee. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, and sits at present on the Advisory Board of the RSC journal Energy and Environmental Science.
He has presented 2016 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled "Supercharged: Fuelling the Future" on the theme of energy. The lectures are broadcast on BBC Four.
Personal life
Outside academia, he enjoy films, indie music (The Smiths et al.) and reading novels. As an atheist (humanist), he reads the writings of Polly Toynbee and Richard Dawkins. He is a member of the British Humanist Association(BHA). He is married and has two young children.
Awards and honours
Saiful Islam presented the 2016 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures ‘Supercharged: Fuelling the future’, a commemorative lecture series for BBC Four which celebrated 80 years since the Christmas Lectures were first broadcast on television in 1936.