Saiful Islam (chemist)

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Professor
Saiful Islam
FRSC FIMMM
Saiful Islam with crystal structures
Born (1963-08-14) 14 August 1963 (age 61)
Karachi, Pakistan
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity College London (BSc, PhD)
Known forChemistry of Energy Materials
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2016 Lecturer)
AwardsIOM3 Robert Perrin Award (2023)
Hughes Medal (2022)
American Chemical Society Award for Energy Chemistry (2020)
RSC Peter Day Award for Materials Chemistry (2017)
Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013–2018)
RSC Sustainable Energy Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials chemistry
Lithium-ion batteries
Solid-state battery
Perovskite solar cells
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Bath
University of Surrey
The Eastman Kodak Company
University College London
Doctoral advisorRichard Catlow FRSC FRS FInstP
Websitewww.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/islam.html

Saiful Islam FRSC FIMMM (born 14 August 1963) is a British chemist and professor of materials modelling at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. Saiful is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and received the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award and Hughes Medal, and the American Chemical Society Award for Energy Chemistry for his major contributions to the fundamental atomistic understanding of new materials for lithium batteries and perovskite solar cells.

Saiful is an atheist[1] who refused the Order of the British Empire citing discomfort with the phrase "British Empire" and its link to colonialism.[2]

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