Andrew Goodwin

Andrew L. Goodwin FRS is a university research professor and professor of materials chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Education Goodwin was educated at Sydney Boys High School and represented Australia at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 1996, winning a gold medal.

Goodwin earned a BSc in chemistry and pure mathematics at University of Sydney in 2002. In 2004 he completed a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of Sydney under advisor Cameron Kepert. Goodwin earned a Ph.D. in mineral physics from the University of Cambridge in 2006 under advisor Martin T. Dove.

Career Goodwin was a junior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2009. Goodwin was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University in 2007. He is an LGBT academic.

Awards and honours Goodwin won the 2010 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize for his work in materials with "negative thermal expansion and in the field of total scattering methods." In 2013, Goodwin won the Marlow Award for his "innovative studies of the physical chemistry and chemical physics of amorphous materials." He won the 2017 Corday-Morgan Prize for his "innovative studies of correlated disorder and its role in functional materials." Goodwin is a 2018 United Kingdom winner of the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.

Goodwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2023. In 2025, he received a Faraday Discovery Fellowship, awarded by the Royal Society.