Henry Snaith

Henry Snaith
Henry Snaith in 2015
Born	Henry James Snaith 1977/1978 (age 38–39)[1]
Fields	Physics Solar cells Perovskite solar cells Photovoltaics Optoelectronics
Institutions	University of Oxford Oxford Martin School Clarendon Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd[2] École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alma mater	University of Bristol (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Thesis	Polymer based photovoltaic diodes (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Friend[2][3]
Other academic advisors	Michael Grätzel
Doctoral students	Priti Tiwana[4] Michael Brown[5] Pablo Docampo[6] Andrew Hey[7] Michael Lee[8] Tomas Leijtens[9] Varun Sivaram[10] Michael Saliba[11] Nakita Noel [12] Giles Eperon[13]
Notable awards	FRS (2015)[14] Patterson Medal (2012) MRS Outstanding Young Investigator (2014)[15]
Website www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/78 www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/snaith

Henry James Snaith FRS^[14] is a Professor in Physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.^{[16][17][18][19][20][21]}

Education

Snaith was educated at Gresham's School, in Norfolk from 1989 to 1996.^[22] He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol, followed by postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 2005 for research on polymer solar cells supervised by Richard Friend.^[2][3][23]

Career

Following his PhD, Snaith did two years of postdoctoral research with Michael Grätzel at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.^[2][24] He returned to the Cavendish Laboratory as a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge in 2006. Following this, Snaith was appointed a Research Councils UK research fellow while at the University of Oxford, then promoted to Reader and Professor.

Research

According to a biography from the Materials Research Society (MRS):

Snaith's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).^[26]

Awards and honours

Snaith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.^[27] His certificate of election reads:

In 2014, Snaith was awarded the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award.^[15] He was awarded the Patterson Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2012, and named as one of Nature's ten people who mattered in 2013.^[1]

In 2015, Snaith was ranked number two on the list of "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds," a citation analysis identifying the scientists who have made the most significant impact within their respective field of study by the Intellectual Property (IP) and Science business of Thomson Reuters.^[28]

In May 2016, he was awarded the EU-40 Materials Prize from European Material Research Society.^[29]

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