Robin Grimes
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Robin Grimes at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
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| Born | Robin William Grimes |
| Fields | Materials physics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Ministry of Defence Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham (BSc) Case Western Reserve University (MS) Keele University (PhD)[1] |
| Thesis | Quantum mechanical and classical modelling of defects in metal oxides. (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Catlow |
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Robin William Grimes FRS FREng [2] is chief scientific adviser in the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for nuclear science and technology and professor of materials physics at Imperial College London.[3][4][5] From February 2013 to August 2018 he served as chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).[4]
Education
Grimes was educated at 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.[1]
Career and research
Grimes has used computer simulation and high performance computing (HPC) to predict the structural and dynamic behaviour of ceramics, metals and semiconductors for energy applications.[2] This has allowed him to identify ways in which atomic scale defects modify materials properties. He has investigated a wide range of properties, including thermal conductivity and how materials deform but also how atoms are transported through solids.[2] While best known for modelling nuclear materials, he has worked as much on electrochemical systems, optical and electronic materials.[2]
Grimes established science diplomacy within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office working as chief scientific adviser.[2] He has mainstreamed science as a tool in the UK's diplomatic tool box, using science evidence and science networks to place science collaboration as the heart of key international relationships.[2] He maintains a leading role in the nuclear power academic community.[2]
Awards and honours
Grimes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018[2] and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).[when?]
References
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