Nicole Grobert

Nicole Grobert FRSC FYAE is a German-British materials chemist. She is a professor of nanomaterials at the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a Royal Society industry fellow at Williams Advanced Engineering.

Career Grobert studied chemistry at the University of Ulm. She conducted her PhD under the supervision of Sir Harry Kroto FRS NL and Dr David Walton FRSC and received her PhD in physical chemistry for her thesis on Novel Carbon Nanomaterials from the University of Sussex in 2001 for which she was awarded the Carbon Pergamon Prize in the same year. Following a one-year post-doc in the same lab and group leader post at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, she was awarded the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2002, the Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2006, and the Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 2016.

In 2010, Grobert was promoted to professor of nanomaterials and made permanent at the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. She is also a fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a visiting professor at the BioNano Electronics Research Centre at Toyo University, Japan. Prior to her current post at Oxford, she was offered a chair at a Russell Group University and a chair (Première Classe) and directorship at a French university and research institute.

From 2018 to 2025, Grobert was a member and later the chair of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.

Research As a professor of nanomaterials, Grobert her research is focused on the "synthesis, processing, and characterisation of novel carbon and non-carbon based nanomaterials, including nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanorods, graphene and other 2D nanomaterials".