Peter Philip Edwards#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2013 to date Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
• 2003 - 2013 Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry
• 1999 Professor of Chemistry, and of Materials, University of Birmingham
• 1996 Head, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
• 1991 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Birmingham
• 1988 Co-Founder and Co-Director Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, Cambridge University
• 1986 Visiting Professor, Baker Laboratory of Chemistry, Cornell University
• 1979 Demonstrator, then Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, Cambridge University; Director of Studies in Chemistry, Jesus College, Cambridge
• 1977 SRC Nato Fellow, and Ramsay Memorial Fellow, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford
• 1975 Fulbright Scholar and National Science Foundation Fellow, Cornell University
• 1974 SRC Fellow, Salford and Cambridge Universities

• The Metal-Insulator transition
• Metals in non-aqueous solvents
• High-Temperature superconductivity
• Metal clusters and nanoparticles
• Hydrogen storage materials
• Transparent conducting oxides
• Carbon-neutral liquid fuels

• UK:
  • 2013 Inaugural Distinguished Sir Edward Frankland Lecture, Imperial College, London
  • 2012 Armourers and Brasiers Materials Science Venture Prize
  • 2012 Bakerian Lecture , Royal Society of London
  • 2007 DSc, honoris causa, Salford University
  • 2003 Hughes Medal , Royal Society of London
  • 1999 Liversidge Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 1996 Elected, Fellow of the Royal Society of London
  • 1992 Tilden Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 1987 Corday-Morgan Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 1975 Fulbright Scholarship
• Europe:
  • 2009 Elected, German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
• India:
  • 2009 CNR Rao Lecturer, Chemical Research Society, India
• China:
  • 2011 Elected, Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• USA:
  • 2012 Elected, International Member, American Philosophical Society

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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