Making a Materials Difference to Green Energy (Batteries Included)

Saiful Islam is Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath. He grew up in Crouch End London and obtained his degree and PhD from University College London, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Eastman Kodak Labs in New York, and a lecturer position at the University of Surrey before joining Bath in 2006.

His research encompasses major contributions to the deeper understanding of atomistic processes in materials for lithium batteries and perovskite solar cells with more than 225 publications. He has received several awards including the 2020 ACS Award in Energy Chemistry, the 2017 RSC Peter Day Award for Materials Chemistry and the 2013 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

As well as directing the Faraday Institution CATMAT project on next-generation Li-ion cathode materials, he serves on the RSC Board of Trustees and the Royal Society Public Engagement Committee.
Saiful was invited to present the prestigious 80th anniversary Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2016 for BBC TV on the theme of energy, which included a Guinness World Record for the highest voltage (1,275 V) from a lemon battery! He is also a Patron of Humanists UK.