The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division and ACS Central Science announce the winner of the ACS Central Science Disruptors & Innovators Prize: Clare Grey, D.Phil., FRS, of Cambridge University. Since 2020, the ACS Central Science Disruptors & Innovators Prize has recognized individuals who are advancing the central science of chemistry through their innovative research, according to the organizations.
“I’m honored and excited to have won this award — a wonderful recognition of not just me, but also the students and postdocs who have worked with me in both the U.S. and the U.K. to make this happen,” says Grey in a press release from the organization. “It is also great to see my fundamental science being appreciated in this way.”
Grey is the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University and is a fellow of Pembroke College Cambridge and the U.K.’s Royal Society. She received a B.A. and D.Phil. in chemistry from Oxford University. She reportedly was the founding director of the Northeast Center for Chemical Energy Storage — an Energy Frontier Research Center of the U.S. Department of Energy — which she started while a professor at Stony Brook University. She is currently the director of the EPSRC Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems and a principal investigator at the Faraday Institution. Her current research interests include the use of solid-state NMR and diffraction-based methods to determine structure-function relationships in materials for energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors) and conversion (fuel cells).
“It is my tremendous honor to present the 2022 ACS Central Science Disruptors & Innovators Prize to Professor Clare Grey, in recognition of her pioneering work in fundamental studies of rechargeable battery materials using solid-state NMR methodology,” says Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D., editor in chief of ACS Central Science, in the press release. “Grey is an inspiration to the scientific community and her work perfectly embodies the power of chemistry as the central science.”
Read the entire press release at www.acs.org
