Robin Grimes

Professor Sir Robin William Grimes is a British nuclear scientist who was chief scientific adviser in the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for nuclear science and technology and is a professor of materials physics at Imperial College London. From February 2013 to August 2018 he served as chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Education Grimes was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Kings Heath, Birmingham, University of Nottingham (BSc) and Case Western Reserve University (MS). He completed his PhD at Keele University for research supervised by Richard Catlow in 1988.

Awards and honours Grimes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018

He was knighted in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to UK resilience and international science relationships. In April 2022, Grimes was awarded an honorary doctorate by Aston University in Birmingham.

In July 2024, Grimes was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University.