Clare Grey

Dame Clare Philomena Grey is Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Grey uses nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study and optimize batteries.

Education Grey received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry in 1991, both from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Sir Anthony Cheetham, used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and magic angle spinning (MAS) to study rare-earth pyrochlores.

Career and research Following Grey's graduate studies, she held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Nijmegen. She also made major contributions to the development of lithium-air batteries.

Grey is co-founder of Nyobolt, a company which specializes in niobium-based batteries.

Honours and awards Grey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011 and awarded the Günther Laukien Prize in 2013

In December 2013, Grey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University.

Other awards, honours and career highlights include:

2008 Vaughan Lecturer 2010 John Jeyes Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry 2011 Kavli Medal 2013 Günther Laukien Prize 2015 Arfvedson-Schlenk Award, for outstanding scientific and technical achievements in lithium chemistry 2017 Prix Franco-Britannique from the Société Chimique de France 2018 Interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 first broadcast March 2018 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry John B. Goodenough Award 2020 Royal Society Hughes Medal 2021 Körber European Science Prize